You should definitely consider using a classname to select items like
this. $('input.quantity') would be significantly faster.
On May 22, 8:29 am, Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am writing a script that scans a list of items that each contain
> form fields and doing something based on the value of the field in
> each item. I came up with the following code, which does seem to work
> as intended, but execution can take upwards of 500ms, which I feel is
> rather slow.
>
> var container = '#myElem';
>
> $(container.children ()).each (function ()
> {
> thisVal = parseInt ($('[EMAIL PROTECTED]"quantity"]', this).attr
> ('value'),
> 10);
> // Do stuff
>
> });
>
> Obviously the fields can't have the same ID as that would break the
> validity of the HTML. Field names do not have to be unique so it
> seemed logical to use them as the basis of selecting the collection of
> elements to work with.
