I had read somewhere that IE didn't support .innerHTML for the tbody element. Will I have to recreate the entire table HTML? Sorry for the noob question; I'm still a fish out of water in javascript at times.
Josh On Aug 8, 8:18 am, "Dan G. Switzer, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh, > > >Well, I feel stupid. it's not the join that's taking so long, it's > >the $( "really big DOM string with 1,000 rows and 3 columns") that > >takes so dang long on IE7. After all of this rambling, does anyone > >have any options for me to try? > > >Sorry, for the self-dialog here. > > Just for testing purposes, you might want to test in IE by just using the > DOM property innerHTML to set the table. > > This will at least tell you where the majority of overhead is coming from. > Is it from jQuery's processing routines or for the actual DOM creation. > > In my experience IE6 is sluggish when trying to generate large tables on the > fly. (This is pre-jQuery coding as well.) > > -Dan