Thanks, everyone, for the answers. On May 11, 1:47 pm, "Dan G. Switzer, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I haven't really spent any time looking through the parsing engine, but > > wouldn't it be faster to find elements by ID and then filter by the tag? > > >IIRC, that's what the selector engine does currently (that or something > >like it). "p#myId" used to take a very long time because it would go > >through every "p" and look for one with an id of "myId". I'm quite sure > >that jQuery doesn't do that anymore. > > That obviously makes the most sense. Adding the tag element to the selector > would still slow things down (as it's extra processing--that may not be > needed.) > > -Dan
