How can I clear content without getting the dreaded “stop running this script?” dialog?

Question

In Windows Forms there\'s a BeginUpdate/EndUpdate pair on some controls. I want something like that, but for jQuery.

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I have a div, that holds a div. like this: <

Answer 1

You should try bypassing jQuery and empty out the content yourself after destroying the accordion:

$('#report')[0].innerHTML = '';

This will be much faster, but may cause IE to leak memory (jQuery goes to great pains to try to ensure that there are no references that prevent IE from doing garbage collection, which is part of why it is so slow to remove data).