jQuery nested $(".class") selectors

Benchmark created by Scott Kosman on

Description

Testing whether selecting multiple class names is faster by various methods

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<ul class="foo">
<li>yay!</li>

<li>yay!</li>

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<li class="bar">yay!</li>

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</ul>

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Testing in
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.find()
$(".foo").find(".bar")
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context
$(".bar",".foo")
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multiple classes in one $
$(".foo .bar")
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