I had a javascript section at the end of my file, after the close of the body tag, which fills the innerHTML of one of my tags with a table. The code was working perfectly fine. But then I wanted to move the script to a separate .js file, because I didn't want it accessible. When I did so, the code simply stopped working. I then moved the code inside the head, and got an error. I understand this: since the code was now before the body, I was attempting to access an object which had not yet been created. So I put all the code inside a function and in the body statement, I put onload= followed by a call to that function. The code is now working again. The problem: Since the code is now not called until after all the .gifs are loaded, the page looks frightful until then. So the types of solutions I'm looking for: 1. Is there an event earlier than onload? 2. Is there any way to refer to a .js file other than from the head? 3. Is there a way to create and fill an object before body? Anyone responses from someone who understands this problem and has a solution (any off-topic comments and/or questions will be ignored) would be welcome. Thank you.

> 2. Is there any way to refer to a .js > file other than from the head? Couldn't you just put: [script src="script.js"][/script] in place of the script?

Try the above. Also, you may want to consider preloading your images. This can be done quite easily with JavaScript.