[jQuery] Re: jQuery select where attribute ID less than

Can you give us a hint what your DOM elements look like? For example, are
these ID attributes in ascending order in the DOM? That would allow you to
use a very fast binary search. If they are in an undetermined order then
you're pretty much stuck with looping through them - but with thousands of
them I would use a for loop rather than .each().

Or as Josh suggested, do something on the server. But it's hard to make any
recommendations without knowing more about what you're doing.

-Mike

> From: Namir
>
> Still how would I do it with an each? I'd still need to
> select all the ones with an attribute of less than x, and it
> would be stupid to loop it from 1 to whatever as x can reach
> thousands. Do you have any other suggestions as to how I
> could do this?
>
> On Aug 31, 9:58 pm, aquaone <aqua...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > id will be a string. AFAIK there's no built-in to parse it
> as a number
> > and compare. you'd either have to .each() it or find
> another means of
> > accomplishing what you are trying to do.
> >
> > aquaone
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 13:50, Namir <namiras...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > How can I do a less than in a select e.g. something like
> > > $.("span.class [id<"+ a_custom_variable +"]") when I
> tried that it
> > > just selected all span of class with an ID attribute rather than
> > > where ID attribute is less than
>