Did you try the wrapper DIV that I suggested? Did it help or not? $('div.displayer').html( '<div>' + strHTML + '</div>' );
-Mike > huh. this is an interesting thought. why would the use of > join() speed things up versus just appending a string variable? > the reason I'm not concerned about the for() loop is that it > seems to be quite fast when I output the strHTML in a document.write. > > I'm trying to figure out wasy to speed up the rendering by > doing something other than html()... but I can't think of anything.