Using $("td.Name") should also improve the scripts performance as
well. When you use $(".Name") it will go through all tags on the page.
If the class name is on other tags as well, you could always add
another selector (e.g. $("td.Name, li.Name").
On Jun 11, 3:02 am, "Dan G. Switzer, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >Thank you.
>
> >Is it possible to interrupt the script each time the user enter a new
> >letter
> >in the search box ?
>
> What I'd recommend doing is building in a setTimeout() delay that would only
> fire off the event if the user pauses typing--that way you're not trying to
> fire it off for every keystroke.
>
> As for stop the each(), if you do a return true/false inside the callback
> function, it should stop execution of the loop.
>
> This means you can add a condition to the loop based on a global variable to
> determine if you should stop the loop. So, something like the following
> would work:
>
> $(".Name").each(
> function (){
> // provided lastTbxValue is a global value that's updated
> each
> // time the value changes, this should stop the loop
> if( tbxValue != lastTbxValue ) return false;
>
> // create a pointer to the current table cell
> var oCell = $(this);
>
> // hide the parent
> oCell.parent().[oCell.text().indexOf(tbxValue) > -1 ? "show"
> : "hide"]();
> }
> );
>
> -Dan
