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cscgal

Aug 27th, 2006 12:27 pm

Delay loading advertisements

Is there ANY method to delay the loading of 3rd party javascript advertisements until the rest of the page has finished loading? When my ad server gets sluggish, it delays the output of my site, which is killer.

And yes, I already know about using position:absolute to place the JS code at the bottom of the page and absolutely position the ad where I want it. Unfortunately that's really hard to do with my layout, however.

Sailor_Jerry

Aug 27th, 2006 1:52 pm

Re: Delay loading advertisements

Try adding the "defer" attribute to the end of your script tags.
i.e.(<script type='"text/javascript" defer>your javascript</script>

With this attribute, the code inside the script tags will only get executed when the page has been loaded completely.

cscgal

Aug 27th, 2006 1:55 pm

Re: Delay loading advertisements

Thanks. Unfortunately, this only works for script files inside <head>. I've actually just succumbed to the pressure and did a whole bunch of fancy absolute positioning tricks. So we'll see how it goes :)

Sailor_Jerry

Aug 27th, 2006 2:33 pm

Re: Delay loading advertisements

Quote:

Originally Posted by cscgal (Post 246976)

Here is a quick test with the scipt in the body. If you remove defer from the script tag and run the html, you will get a script error.

<html>

<head>

<style>#TestDefer{display:none;}</style>

</head>





<body>

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" defer>

alert(document.getElementById('TestDefer').innerHTML);

</script>



<div id=TestDefer >

This Text should display in the alert if defer is present in the script.

</div>

</body>

</html>

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