>> If you made 2 key (and fundamental changes) I think you could speed up >the >> performance immensely: >> >> 1) Change to using <div> elements >> 2) Only use on <div> (or <td>) for a block of space. (For example on your >> "String to tables" example, the "j" has 3 rows of 8 columns that are all >> blank. If you just made that a single element, it would speed things up. >> Idealistically you go both vertical and horizontal, so the first element >> would take up 4 columns by 12 rows--since that's all whitespace.) >> > >Thanks for the tip! >I suppose it should be easy to use colspans/rowspans.
I think that would make for a huge speed boost as there's a lot less DOM creation needed.