For a start try using $('div.divideDate'). This means that jQuery can
just check "div" elements for the divideDate class rather than every
element on the page.
Karl Rudd
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:01 AM, pedalpete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I thought I was getting the hang of jquery and javascript, but then i
> wrote this small function, and it is really taking a long to run -
> like 15+ seconds.
>
> The purpose of the function is that i have a list of concerts ordered
> by date.
> I want to show the date when the date changes, so for all concerts on
> Wed, Sep 24, I show the date as a heading on the first concert, and
> then hide the rest of the date headings, and then for concerts on Thur
> Sep 25, the date shows again on the first item, so users know they are
> looking at a different day.
>
> This way users get a clear division of dates.
>
> the function I'm using is
> [code]
> function showDateDivides(){
> $('.divideDate').livequery(function(){
> var dividedID = $(this).attr('id');
> var dateTable = $('#'+dividedID).html();
> var splitDateTable = dateTable.split(' ');
> var dayOfWeek = splitDateTable[0];
> var numOfMonth = splitDateTable[1];
> $('.dateTable#'+dividedID+':first').show();
> $('.dateTable#'+dividedID+':first
> td#'+dayOfWeek).html(numOfMonth).addClass('firstDate');
> });
> [/code]
>
> the class divideDate is hidden in the css when the page loads,
> The id holds the date formated in YYYY-mm-dd
> the class dateTable holds a weekly view date table (so 7 squares), and
> then the day of the week gets the date number and class of firstDate
> added to it.
>
> I hope that's clear. Is this really inefficient code?
>
>
>
