Script type=text/javascript'' src

The HTML script tag <script> is used to embed data or executable client side scripting language in an HTML page.

Script> tag in html body

Script> tag in html body

Script> tag in javascript

Script tag external js

Html script example

Where to put <script> tag in html

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In the above example, a that display a message box.

HTML v4 requires the attribute to identify the language of script code embedded within script tag. This is specified as MIME type e.g.

HTML v5 page does not require the tag.

An HTML page can contain multiple tags in the or tag.

The browser executes all the script tags, starting from the first script tag from the beginning.

Scripts without , or attributes, as well as inline scripts, are fetched and executed immediately, before the browser continues to parse the page.

Script tag attributes

Consider the following page with multiple script tags.

Above, the first tag containing will be executed first, then will be executed, and then will be executed.

The browser loads all the scripts included in the tag before loading and rendering the tag elements.

that are going to be used while rendering the UI. All other scripts should be placed before the ending tag. This way, you can increase the page loading spee

html script tag usage