Well its for a chat box and I want to remove old messages as new
messages come in, so that there are 20 messages being shown at any one
time, using = works perfectly if you add 1 new message because it
selects the last message ID and subtracts 20, but if you add 2
messages then the first message will stay and the second message will
disappear.
Source code: http://www.forsakenrealms.co.cc/chat/?user=test
On Aug 31, 11:01 pm, "Michael Geary" <m...@mg.to> wrote:
> 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
