jquery selector speed

Benchmark created by tsb on October 13, 2011

Preparation HTML

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<div id="test">
  <div class="test2">
    <a href="#">
    <div>adsf</div>
    </a>
  </div>
  <div class="test3">
    <a href="#">
    <div>adsf</div>
    </a>
  </div>
  <div class="test4">
    <a href="#">
    <div>adsf</div>
    </a>
  </div>
</div>

Test runner

$("#test").find("div > a");

$("#test").children("div").children("a");

$("#test div");

$("#test div > a");

$("#test").find("div")

$("div", $("#test"));

Revisions

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• Revision 1: published by tsb on October 13, 2011