Name
defer — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a
Synopsis
Read/Write
Whether the browser should proceed with rendering regular HTML
content without looking for the script to generate content as the
page loads. This value needs to be set in the
SCRIPT element’s tag at run-time. When this
property is set to true by the addition of the
DEFER attribute to the tag, the browser does not
have to hold up rendering further HTML content to parse the content
of the SCRIPT element in search of
document.write( ) statements. Changing this
property’s value after the document loads does not affect the
performance of the script or browser.
Example
document.all.myScript.defer = "true"
Value
Boolean value: true | false.
Default
false
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