Can you give us a hint what your DOM elements look like? For example, are these ID attributes in ascending order in the DOM? That would allow you to use a very fast binary search. If they are in an undetermined order then you're pretty much stuck with looping through them - but with thousands of them I would use a for loop rather than .each().
Or as Josh suggested, do something on the server. But it's hard to make any recommendations without knowing more about what you're doing. -Mike > From: Namir > > Still how would I do it with an each? I'd still need to > select all the ones with an attribute of less than x, and it > would be stupid to loop it from 1 to whatever as x can reach > thousands. Do you have any other suggestions as to how I > could do this? > > On Aug 31, 9:58 pm, aquaone <aqua...@gmail.com> wrote: > > id will be a string. AFAIK there's no built-in to parse it > as a number > > and compare. you'd either have to .each() it or find > another means of > > accomplishing what you are trying to do. > > > > aquaone > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 13:50, Namir <namiras...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > How can I do a less than in a select e.g. something like > > > $.("span.class [id<"+ a_custom_variable +"]") when I > tried that it > > > just selected all span of class with an ID attribute rather than > > > where ID attribute is less than >