I have a feeling I'm missing something obvious, but...
All my neat jQuery functions are being forced to wait by a particularly slow-moving javascript api call from within the body of the page. I'd like to have the jQuery run first, and then the api when that's done. Is there a standard way of imposing the order?
easy workaround, call your api within a setTimeout statement.
Example:
$(document).ready(function(){
// beautiful jQuery code here
setTimeout(function(){
// terribly slow code here
}, 100);
});
It is in general a good idea to use setTimeout on heavy code/DOM manipulation. It will avoid the browser from "freezing".
Well if you just want the jquery before the javascript, do this:
function japi(){
japi.dosomething();
//Your api part here
}
$("#test").html("something");
//Lots of jquery here
japi();
