Thank you - delegation solved the issue. I still am wondering about the cleanup slowness. I appreciate the help.
On Mar 26, 2:04 pm, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote: > These articles will really help clean up your events > > http://www.learningjquery.com/2008/03/working-with-events-part-1http://www.learningjquery.com/2008/05/working-with-events-part-2 > > On Mar 26, 1:20 pm, "Matt W." <propel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > You might want to try adding one click to the table and checking if > > the target was a td. > > > On Mar 26, 7:13 am, J K <artlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Let me start by saying that I am doing something rather unorthodox > > > with jQuery, and I realize that this is probably outside the realm of > > > what is reasonable. > > > > I have a 65x65 HTML table, giving me 4225 TD cells. > > > > I am making each of them clickable with the following code: > > > > $('td').click(function () { > > > // do something > > > > }); > > > > It works wonderfully in all browsers (well, IE is a little slow, but > > > it's IE). > > > > When I go to close this page, Safari and Opera close almost instantly, > > > IE pauses for a moment and then closes, but Firefox takes sometimes 10 > > > seconds or more to close the tab, causing the browser to lock for that > > > time. > > > > I traced the lock into the jQuery cleanup code for event handling. > > > Does anyone know why this is so slow on Firefox?
