Tips for making jQuery selectors faster

Unfortunately jQuery selectors aren’t stupid proof. Its all too easy to chuck a long string of junk into your selector and not have a single problem. You might have the attitude of, “meh it works” and not give it any more thought of if there is a better way.

The upside of actually paying attention to your jQuery selectors is: the faster they execute the faster your page is going to render and operate. This is especially true for browsers with slower javascript engines like Internet Explorer and phones/devices with lower memory.

I hope that you find using my following tips your jQuery selectors will become optimised to the fastest execution time humanly possible.

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A hitch hikers guide on how to improve jQuery performance

I see all to often the simple mistakes developers make when coding with jQuery.

Hopefully these tips will appear simple to you and thats because they ARE. These basic changes to your coding habits will have drastic performance improvements to your jQuery.

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