[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
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,Namirnamiras...@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
[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
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,Namirnamiras...@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
[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
I tried using this $(span.message[id=+old_messages+]:lt(100)).hide
(slide, {direction: up}, 2000); but it doesnt seem to be working
correctly
On Sep 1, 7:07 pm, aquaone aqua...@gmail.com wrote:
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,Namirnamiras...@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
[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
wouldnt work, even if I set the index to count the number of messages
and subtract 20 and index those as sometimes there may be missing ID's
as they may have been deleted.
On Sep 1, 9:59 pm, James james.gp@gmail.com wrote:
Try using just:
$(span.message:lt(100))
If you want to remove elements that are on the bottom, you may want to
use gt() instead of lt().
For example, suppose your code looks like:
span class=message id=msg5test/span // index 0
span class=message id=msg4test/span // index 1
span class=message id=msg3test/span // index 2
span class=message id=msg2test/span // index 3
span class=message id=msg1test/span // index 4
Doing:
$(span.message:gt(2)).hide();
will hide:
span class=message id=msg2test/span // index 3
span class=message id=msg1test/span // index 4
because they have index greater-than 2.
On Sep 1, 10:16 am, Namir namiras...@hotmail.com wrote:
I tried using this $(span.message[id=+old_messages+]:lt(100)).hide
(slide, {direction: up}, 2000); but it doesnt seem to be working
correctly
On Sep 1, 7:07 pm, aquaone aqua...@gmail.com wrote:
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,Namirnamiras...@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
[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
It doesn't matter if they're missing IDs. You don't need the IDs.
(Also, IDs cannot begin with a number. It's not valid.)
All you need to know is how many new messages you received on your
latest update (to determine how many old ones to remove), and your
maximum number of messages to display at once. That is enough info to
do what you want.
On Sep 1, 11:07 am, Namir namiras...@hotmail.com wrote:
wouldnt work, even if I set the index to count the number of messages
and subtract 20 and index those as sometimes there may be missing ID's
as they may have been deleted.
On Sep 1, 9:59 pm, James james.gp@gmail.com wrote:
Try using just:
$(span.message:lt(100))
If you want to remove elements that are on the bottom, you may want to
use gt() instead of lt().
For example, suppose your code looks like:
span class=message id=msg5test/span // index 0
span class=message id=msg4test/span // index 1
span class=message id=msg3test/span // index 2
span class=message id=msg2test/span // index 3
span class=message id=msg1test/span // index 4
Doing:
$(span.message:gt(2)).hide();
will hide:
span class=message id=msg2test/span // index 3
span class=message id=msg1test/span // index 4
because they have index greater-than 2.
On Sep 1, 10:16 am, Namir namiras...@hotmail.com wrote:
I tried using this $(span.message[id=+old_messages+]:lt(100)).hide
(slide, {direction: up}, 2000); but it doesnt seem to be working
correctly
On Sep 1, 7:07 pm, aquaone aqua...@gmail.com wrote:
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,Namirnamiras...@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
[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
Try using just:
$(span.message:lt(100))
If you want to remove elements that are on the bottom, you may want to
use gt() instead of lt().
For example, suppose your code looks like:
span class=message id=msg5test/span // index 0
span class=message id=msg4test/span // index 1
span class=message id=msg3test/span // index 2
span class=message id=msg2test/span // index 3
span class=message id=msg1test/span // index 4
Doing:
$(span.message:gt(2)).hide();
will hide:
span class=message id=msg2test/span // index 3
span class=message id=msg1test/span // index 4
because they have index greater-than 2.
On Sep 1, 10:16 am, Namir namiras...@hotmail.com wrote:
I tried using this $(span.message[id=+old_messages+]:lt(100)).hide
(slide, {direction: up}, 2000); but it doesnt seem to be working
correctly
On Sep 1, 7:07 pm, aquaone aqua...@gmail.com wrote:
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,Namirnamiras...@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
[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
Thats a very smart way of doing it. Thanks a lot. Also why is it
invalid to start an ID as a number? I'm not receiving any errors by
doing it. Should I instead set a custom attribute called msg_id and
use that?
On Sep 1, 10:21 pm, James james.gp@gmail.com wrote:
It doesn't matter if they're missing IDs. You don't need the IDs.
(Also, IDs cannot begin with a number. It's not valid.)
All you need to know is how many new messages you received on your
latest update (to determine how many old ones to remove), and your
maximum number of messages to display at once. That is enough info to
do what you want.
On Sep 1, 11:07 am, Namir namiras...@hotmail.com wrote:
wouldnt work, even if I set the index to count the number of messages
and subtract 20 and index those as sometimes there may be missing ID's
as they may have been deleted.
On Sep 1, 9:59 pm, James james.gp@gmail.com wrote:
Try using just:
$(span.message:lt(100))
If you want to remove elements that are on the bottom, you may want to
use gt() instead of lt().
For example, suppose your code looks like:
span class=message id=msg5test/span // index 0
span class=message id=msg4test/span // index 1
span class=message id=msg3test/span // index 2
span class=message id=msg2test/span // index 3
span class=message id=msg1test/span // index 4
Doing:
$(span.message:gt(2)).hide();
will hide:
span class=message id=msg2test/span // index 3
span class=message id=msg1test/span // index 4
because they have index greater-than 2.
On Sep 1, 10:16 am, Namir namiras...@hotmail.com wrote:
I tried using this $(span.message[id=+old_messages+]:lt(100)).hide
(slide, {direction: up}, 2000); but it doesnt seem to be working
correctly
On Sep 1, 7:07 pm, aquaone aqua...@gmail.com wrote:
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,Namirnamiras...@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
[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
*http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-id
ID* and *NAME* tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be
followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens (-),
underscores (_), colons (:), and periods (.).
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 14:44, Namir namiras...@hotmail.com wrote:
Thats a very smart way of doing it. Thanks a lot. Also why is it
invalid to start an ID as a number? I'm not receiving any errors by
doing it. Should I instead set a custom attribute called msg_id and
use that?
On Sep 1, 10:21 pm, James james.gp@gmail.com wrote:
It doesn't matter if they're missing IDs. You don't need the IDs.
(Also, IDs cannot begin with a number. It's not valid.)
All you need to know is how many new messages you received on your
latest update (to determine how many old ones to remove), and your
maximum number of messages to display at once. That is enough info to
do what you want.
On Sep 1, 11:07 am, Namir namiras...@hotmail.com wrote:
wouldnt work, even if I set the index to count the number of messages
and subtract 20 and index those as sometimes there may be missing ID's
as they may have been deleted.
On Sep 1, 9:59 pm, James james.gp@gmail.com wrote:
Try using just:
$(span.message:lt(100))
If you want to remove elements that are on the bottom, you may want
to
use gt() instead of lt().
For example, suppose your code looks like:
span class=message id=msg5test/span // index 0
span class=message id=msg4test/span // index 1
span class=message id=msg3test/span // index 2
span class=message id=msg2test/span // index 3
span class=message id=msg1test/span // index 4
Doing:
$(span.message:gt(2)).hide();
will hide:
span class=message id=msg2test/span // index 3
span class=message id=msg1test/span // index 4
because they have index greater-than 2.
On Sep 1, 10:16 am, Namir namiras...@hotmail.com wrote:
I tried using this
$(span.message[id=+old_messages+]:lt(100)).hide
(slide, {direction: up}, 2000); but it doesnt seem to be
working
correctly
On Sep 1, 7:07 pm, aquaone aqua...@gmail.com wrote:
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
[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
Just for the record, ignoring performance and the invalid IDs, this
could be done with filter():
$('span.class').filter(function(){
return this.id y;
});
cheers,
- ricardo
On Aug 31, 6:57 pm, aquaone aqua...@gmail.com wrote:
indeed. there's gotta be a better solution than this.
if you can't control it and insist on using this method,
$(span.class).each(function(){if($(this).attr('id')x){//do something}});
The performance on that will be crap. Please find an alternate solution e.g.
.is(':gt'+x)
aquaone
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 14:47, Josh Nathanson joshnathan...@gmail.comwrote:
Any chance of doing what you need to do on the server, rather than the
client?
Are you stuck with the naming convention you're using, or can you name the
spans a little differently or give them different class names to allow for
better selection criteria?
Given your current situation you'd have to loop through each span as
Aquaone
said, but I bet you might be able to think of a different way to approach
the problem.
-- Josh
-Original Message-
From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Namir
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 2:33 PM
To: jQuery (English)
Subject: [jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
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
[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
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
[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
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
[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
Any chance of doing what you need to do on the server, rather than the client? Are you stuck with the naming convention you're using, or can you name the spans a little differently or give them different class names to allow for better selection criteria? Given your current situation you'd have to loop through each span as Aquaone said, but I bet you might be able to think of a different way to approach the problem. -- Josh -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Namir Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 2:33 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than 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
[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
indeed. there's gotta be a better solution than this.
if you can't control it and insist on using this method,
$(span.class).each(function(){if($(this).attr('id')x){//do something}});
The performance on that will be crap. Please find an alternate solution e.g.
.is(':gt'+x)
aquaone
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 14:47, Josh Nathanson joshnathan...@gmail.comwrote:
Any chance of doing what you need to do on the server, rather than the
client?
Are you stuck with the naming convention you're using, or can you name the
spans a little differently or give them different class names to allow for
better selection criteria?
Given your current situation you'd have to loop through each span as
Aquaone
said, but I bet you might be able to think of a different way to approach
the problem.
-- Josh
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Subject: [jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
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
[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than
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
