Hi, > $(.dialog) does 815 function calls (!!!!) > $('#speech28') does 6 function calls
That is not very surprizing. $('#speech28') only needs to call getElementById() and make a jQuery Object from it. $('.dialog') gets all elements, puts them into an array and filters that array for the classnames. Maybe that could be optimized by filtering while walking the tree. Then only the matching Elements would be put into the array and it doesn't need to be filtered afterwards. Christof _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/