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12,342 PointsCouldn't you do a script defer on the HTML? Is there a difference between the two? Is one better practice?
Couldn't you do a script defer on the HTML? Is there a difference between the two? Is one better practice than the other?
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Peter Vann
36,427 PointsI would have to run some experiments to know for sure, but here's some related articles/treads:
https://javascript.info/onload-ondomcontentloaded
https://www.kirupa.com/html5/running_your_code_at_the_right_time.htm
https://eager.io/blog/how-to-decide-when-your-code-should-run/
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/run-javascript-only-after-entire-page-has-loaded/
I hope those help.
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