You most probably guess right on the CSS selector speed.
Here's a link to read on CSS selector optimization.
http://www.thegrubbsian.com/2008/10/optimize-jquery-selector-performance.html
On Dec 16, 2:17 pm, "David Morton" <morto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to use Cluetip to make a help text for what can be a large list
> - and I'm hearing reports that a list of 100 items with 4-5 columns each is
> causeing IE7 to slow down or appear to freeze for a while, and commenting
> out the cluetip invocation clears it up. I'm assuming it's jsut due to
> poor javascript speed as it loops over all the DOM to activate all the
> required DOM elements.
>
> Right now, I'm invoking them all with one command that uses a class to pick
> them up:
>
> $('.HelpTipAnchor').cluetip({local:true, cluezIndex: 105, showTitle:
> false,cluetipClass: 'maia', arrows: true, localPrefix: "#cluetip_",
> attribute: "id"});
>
> Is it the $('.class') part that's slow, as I suspect? Is there anything I
> can do to speed it up?
>
> --
> David Morton
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