John, I slapped this modified version of my test page together in a couple minutes:
http://stevenlevithan.com/demo/replaceHtml_jQuery.html jQuery.html() seems to perform pretty terribly, to be honest. The 15,000 element "destroy & create" test in IE7, for example, is over 500 times slower than replaceHtml (around 104141ms vs. 203ms). Am I doing something wrong? (I've never used jQuery before, so I apologize if I'm making some stupid mistake.) --Steven Levithan On Sep 12, 3:16 pm, "John Resig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're in luck! jQuery already pre-empties an element inside .html(). > Calling .html() actually does: > .empty().append("html string"); > > Although, there's a lot of other issues at play inside .append() in > order to make it work cross browser, so those innerHTML benefits have > probably be nullified in the meantime. > > --John > > On 9/12/07, Felix Geisendörfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Here is an interesting blog post that I came across: > > >http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/faster-than-innerhtml > > > The synopsis basically is that one can gain dramatic speed improvements on > > setting innerHTML when removing items that are going to be overwritten using > > DOM methods before inserting stuff via innerHTML. > > > I could see how this would be a need addition to jQuery. > > > -- Felix > > PS: If you like regex make sure to subscribe to this guys blog, he has some > > mad skills going on. > > -------------------------- > > My Blog:http://www.thinkingphp.org > > My Business:http://www.fg-webdesign.de
