How to: Optimize your jQuery selectors
by: Stéphane Caron
Simple selectors
Firefox: 0.350ms, 19 calls
Firefox: 0.350ms, 19 calls
Firefox: 0.450ms, 22 calls
Firefox: 0.500ms, 27 calls
Position selectors
Firefox: 0.550ms, 22 calls
Firefox: 0.730ms, 37 calls
Firefox: 0.800ms, 40 calls
Firefox: 0.730ms, 41 calls
Firefox: 0.730ms, 41 calls
ID selectors
Firefox: 0.100ms, 4 calls
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