title: How to speed up the execution of jquery in the body of an ASP page
body: <p>I am running some jquery in the body of an asp file. Immediately after it is the drop down menu that it effects. 
  The script works fine, the issue is it takes a while to load the script in firefox.</p>
  
  <p>How can I speed this up without moving it higher up in the body or header.</p>
  
  <p>Please note: The link provided is the live website, I am aware that it is firing an object error back because I have
  a old version of jQuery. (On our internal website the jquery is the latest version)</p>
  
  <p>Link:http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:PWA::pc=PC_91330</p>
  
  <p>The code is below: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script&gt;
      $(document).ready(function() {
  
                $(document).on("change","select#state",function(e){
                               $("form#state").submit();
                                 });
  
       });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  
    &lt;form id="state" action="avsafety.asp" method="get"&gt;
  
       &lt;p&gt;State:&lt;br/&gt;
        &lt;select id="state" name="state"&gt;
          &lt;option label="ACT" value="ACT" &lt;%if request.querystring("state") = "ACT" then response.write("selected") %&gt;&gt;ACT&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option label="NSW" value="NSW" &lt;%if request.querystring("state") = "NSW" then response.write("selected") %&gt;&gt;NSW&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option label="NT" value="NT"   &lt;%if request.querystring("state") = "NT" then response.write("selected") %&gt;&gt;NT&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option label="QLD" value="QLD" &lt;%if request.querystring("state") = "QLD" then response.write("selected") %&gt;&gt;QLD&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option label="VIC" value="VIC" &lt;%if request.querystring("state") = "VIC" then response.write("selected") %&gt;&gt;VIC&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option label="SA" value="SA"   &lt;%if request.querystring("state") = "SA" then response.write("selected") %&gt;&gt;SA&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option label="TAS" value="TAS" &lt;%if request.querystring("state") = "TAS" then response.write("selected") %&gt;&gt;TAS&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option label="WA" value="WA"   &lt;%if request.querystring("state") = "WA" then response.write("selected") %&gt;&gt;WA&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;/select&gt;
        &lt;noscript&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Search" /&gt;&lt;/noscript&gt;
      &lt;/p&gt;
  
    &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>