Best practices for declaring functions inside jquery ready function

Question

I haven\'t found a good reference for declaring my own functions inside the

jquery.ready(function(){});

I want to declare them so they

Answer 1

It might sound simple but you just ... declare the function. Javascript allows functions to have inner functions.

$(document).ready( function() {
   alert("hello! document is ready!");

   function multiply(a, b) {
       return a * b;
   }

   alert("3 times 5 is " + multiply(3, 5));
});