Then use indexes from the parent and :lt (
http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/lt#index)

aquaone


On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 04:07, Namir <namiras...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>

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