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Is there a way to put custom HTML tag after jquery script?

• I am using Google Tag Manager to track Universal Analytics events. I am putting a couple of custom HTML tags to subscribe to some click events using jQuery. The problem: jQuery code is added at the bottom of body tag (and I can't change that). GTM puts its custom HTML randomly before or after jQuery, so sometimes I get the "undefined variable $" error. Of course I can check if jQuery is loaded at the moment of event subscription but this way I will lose events on some pages. The question: is there a way to control custom HTML tag positioning in GTM? Or is there another way to avoid my problem?

• Answer:

  How come jQuery is being loaded at the end of your HTML code? It's a bit unusual. jQuery should typically be loaded at the top of the page so the library is available for use anywhere within the page. If you can, you should ask your developer to move jQuery so it's loaded before the GTM snippet. GTM tags will not start loading until the browser reaches the GTM snippet. Since the jQuery library doesn't load asynchronously, if you put it before the GTM snippet, you'll be sure $ is defined by the time it gets used in any tag fired by GTM. Otherwise, there's a way to somewhat control the position of the tags in GTM. Make sure they fire when the DOM is ready using the rule event equals gtm.dom. Then, you can write some Javscript to insert your tag script at the bottom of the page.