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Asked: 2026-05-18T11:36:55+00:00

I’m having a problem with Javascript not executing when placed in the HEAD section

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I’m having a problem with Javascript not executing when placed in the HEAD section of an HTML page in the Safari browser. It works fine in IE, Chrome and Firefox, but with Safari I have to move it down to between the and tags.

Anyone know if this is a known issue?

PS. The HTML and Javascript is contained in .PHP files, if that makes a difference.

Update:

Code I’m using to test:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> 
<head>
    <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.4.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
    alert("In HEAD Tag");
</script>

</head>
<body>
    <div id="innerthumbcontainer">
    Test
    </div>
</body>
</html>

If I open the page containing this directly it seems to work. But as soon as I load this into a DIV from another page it does not fire in Safari. In all the other browsers it does work though.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think I would have heard about it if that was a general problem, you probably have a syntax error in your HTML or something, which for some reason makes Safari give up. Post your code, preferably the HTML output, and we’ll have a chance of telling you what is wrong.

    Edit: As far as I understand you are trying to use a complete HTML page as content for a div, you really can’t do that. Depending on what exactly you are trying to achieve you could either use an iframe, or you could cut out the html, header and body tags.

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