On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Peter Bengtsson <pete...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I watched the John Resig presentation too and learned that CSS
> selectors always work from right to left.
> That would mean that doing this::
>
> $('#foo p')
>
> Would extract all <p> tags and from that list subselect those who
> belong to #foo. Suppose you have 1000 <p> tags of them only 100 are
> inside #foo you'll have wasted 900 loops.
>
> Surely $('#foo') is the fastest lookup possible. Doing it this way
> will effectively limit the scope of the $('p') search and you will
> never be bothered about any <p> tags outside #foo.
I'm certain you meant $('p', $('#foo')) immediately above (and I'm
wondering the same thing, so thanks for asking)
