Thanks!
I had fixed my code and your answer inspired me to map the elements
with the class into an array.
My script become more responsive now.
On Jul 8, 8:31 pm, "Joel Birch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Evert,
>
> '.someclass' is a slow selector as it has to check every single
> element on the page to see if it matches class="someclass". Limiting
> the search closer to the desired elements will speed up the selection
> hugely. For example, choose the closest common ancestor that all
> potential target elements share and that has an id (say,
> #somecontainer) and also specify the type of element that the target
> will be if possible (in this case, a div). Your improved code would
> look like this:
>
> // find all divs with class 'someclass' that are somewhere within
> // (descendant of) an element with id 'somecontainer':
>
> $('#somecontainer div.someclass').removeClass['someclass');
>
> Please let us know if your code still seems slow in IE7 after this.
>
> Joel Birch.
