I think it's generally proven that inserting dom objects is much slower than innerHTML, for the kind of inserting you're trying, that might be worth investigating...
On Feb 4, 1:57 pm, Ashish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi , > > I am very new to jquery. I am using jquery 1.2.2 . I use jquery > tablesorter to insert around 400 rows to a table. The data is > collected using an Ajax call. > > When new rows are inserted to the table the CPU utilization shoots up > to 80%. All browsers freeze until the table is populated :( > > I tried to insert 400 divs to a single div and faced the same problem. > This rules out a problem with tablesorter. > > Does jquery attach a lot of handlers to dom events that make appends > very slow ? > > Any suggestions would be much appreciated. > > Thanks and regards, > - Ashish