Is it bad practice to embed JavaScript into the body of HTML?

Question

A team that I am working on has gotten into the habit of using

Answer 1

A few things:

1. It's completely valid code-wise.
2. It's completely unrecommended.

Doing this slows down your page load considerably as the JavaScript code must execute before any of the rest of the page can render. If you're doing a lot of work in that JavaScript code, your browser could hang. You should try to (whenever possible) load your JavaScript code dynamically and at the end of your page (preferably before the tag).

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