Script Tag - async & defer

Question

I have a couple of questions about the attributes async & defer for the

Answer 1

HTML5: async, defer

In HTML5, you can tell browser when to run your JavaScript code. There are 3 possibilities:

1. Without async or defer, browser will run your script immediately, before rendering the elements that's below your script tag.

2. With async (asynchronous), browser will continue to load the HTML page and render it while the browser load and execute the script at the same time.

3. With defer, browser will run your script when the page finished parsing. (not necessary finishing downloading all image files. This is good.)