In my ongoing quest to master jQuery I had an itch to write a table filtering mechanism. I'm going for speed and elegance here so I want this to work fast enough to bind to a keyup event without bogging down even on long tables. Using DOM coding if I wanted to search the 3rd column only I would loop over oTable.rows[i].cells[2] to find the values. jQuery's selectors are pretty generalized, so I'm wondering if there is a jQuery selector that is equally efficient.
$("td:nth-child(3)", "#mytbody#") perhaps? Some kind of xpath expression? If I had a text field in the table header row, what would be the easiest way to figure out what column it was in so I could pass that to the selector? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Fastest-selector-for-searching-a-single-table-column--tf3382725.html#a9415600 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/