Why does some jquery code only work if it's at the end of my html-body section?

document, javascript, jquery, position

Solution

you need to wrap it with a document ready block. this prevents the code firing until the page is fully loaded.

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
      // do something on document ready
      $("ul.tabs li.label").hide();
      $("#tab-set > div").hide();
      $("#tab-set > div").eq(0).show();
      $("ul.tabs a").click(
        function() {
          $("ul.tabs a.selected").removeClass('selected');
          $("#tab-set > div").hide();
          $(""+$(this).attr("href")).show();
          $(this).addClass('selected');
          return false;
        }
      );
      $("#toggle-label").click( function() {
        $(".tabs li.label").toggle();
        return false;
      });
    });
</script>

Problem

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