Question

I am planning to run my existing selenium tests in IE 8.0. After checking few blogs and reading this, I tried to run my tests using jQuery locators using the method mentioned here. My tests uses a lot of index based selectors, like in xapth=div[class='myclass][index]. In jQuery I tried .myclass:eq(index) to retrieve the elements. But I found jQuery to be much slower than xpath in IE and FF for these operations. Is there a faster way in jQuery to select nth element?

I am using Selenium 1.x.

Answer 1

From jQuery documentation:

Because :eq() is a jQuery extension and not part of the CSS specification, queries using :eq() cannot take advantage of the performance boost provided by the native DOM querySelectorAll() method. For better performance in modern browsers, use $(“your-pure-css-selector”).eq(index) instead.