Josh, Klaus' post is a good example of the "specifity" I was referring to in my post. Basically writing selectors that are much more specific and allow jQuery to do less parsing work.
-Dan >Haven't tested in IE but took a quick look at your script. You could >speed up your queries if that is the problem. Instead of $(".additem") >add a type selector. Assuming that element in question is an anchor: > >$('a.additem') > >That reduces the number of elements that have to be searched through for >a class. In case of the selector '.additem' it is every single element >in the document. > >Even better if you have context...: > >$('#fragmentofpage a.additem') > >or if you want to reuse that context: > >var context = $('#fragmentofpage'); > >$('a.additem', context)... >$('a.otheritem', context)... > > >--Klaus