Hi,
> although i couldn't see one or the other or even the other being much
> faster considering that the selector would have to go through all the
> elements to see if *any* element on the page either (1) has the
> specified class or (2) has the specified id
There is document.getElementById() which usually is really fast. If you use
$('#toto1') uses that. That is why I am not really shure. If you use 50 or
more times $('#toto'+n).hide() I'd expect the parser and the many function
calls to take up quite some time, so that the whole construct should not be
faster than using the class $('.toto').hide().
If all relevant Elements are in the same container, then I'd expect
$('#container > .toto').hide() to be a good solution. If all the relevant
Elements are divs and there are more elements in the container, then
$('#container > div.toto').hide() might give you a bit more speed.
Christof
