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Asked: 2026-05-14T21:21:02+00:00

While John Resig’s recommendation is, quite rightly, to declare all events within a jquery.document.ready()

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While John Resig’s recommendation is, quite rightly, to declare all events within a jquery.document.ready() function, I know that you don’t actually have to put everything in there. In fact, there are cases where it may be more appropriate to deliberately put methods outside of the ready event.

But what are those cases? Obviously best practice dictates that all events are declared within the ready event, so what would best practice be for declarations outside that event?

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Remember, I’m not just after the less-obvious stuff, but I’d like to get a good account of the obvious parts as well. For example, if I’m writing a plugin, I wouldn’t encapsulate that code in a jquery.document.ready() call.

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    Put everything in jquery.document.ready() which:

    • changes layout (you want to prevent page-flicker)
    • is needed for user-interaction, to make the page usable

    What can postponed is:

    • everything not important for the user, for example analytics, ads
    • things (slightly) improving the user experience
    • fetching non-essential widgets or buttons to be added to the page
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