You're in luck! jQuery already pre-empties an element inside .html().
Calling .html() actually does:
.empty().append("html string");
Although, there's a lot of other issues at play inside .append() in
order to make it work cross browser, so those innerHTML benefits have
probably be nullified in the meantime.
--John
On 9/12/07, Felix Geisendörfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Here is an interesting blog post that I came across:
>
> http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/faster-than-innerhtml
>
> The synopsis basically is that one can gain dramatic speed improvements on
> setting innerHTML when removing items that are going to be overwritten using
> DOM methods before inserting stuff via innerHTML.
>
> I could see how this would be a need addition to jQuery.
>
> -- Felix
> PS: If you like regex make sure to subscribe to this guys blog, he has some
> mad skills going on.
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