If you are trying to hide allrows would it be possible to hide either the
table or the tbody?
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:28 AM, RickyBerg <bergbra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been converting a legacy web app to use JQuery. I've now cleaned
> it up so that my HTML validates and I have instrumented the code with
> classes and id's as appropriate. This app is essentially a table that
> displays the status of jobs for Autosys.
>
> The problem that I'm having is that when I hide the entire list, the
> browser hangs for several minutes.
>
> There are sometimes over 2000 rows. I have cached the full resultset
> into a variable, though I'm not sure how helpful this is.
>
> In the code below, the initial setting of $allRows doesn't take much
> time at all, but when I hit the hide() line, the browser hangs for
> waaaay too long. interestingly, if I comment out the hide() command,
> and then manually issue a comand like $allRows.css("color", "red"); it
> works in a very reasonable amount of time.
>
> $(function() {
> $allRows = $("tbody>tr");
> $allRows.hide();
> }
>
> Also, if I let it run once to completion and all of the rows are
> hidden, then I can show() them and hide() them in reasonable time.
>
> Is it something with my selector?
>
> Thanks, folks.
>
> Eric
>
