jquery: fastest DOM insertion?

Question

I got this bad feeling about how I insert larger amounts of HTML. Lets assume we got:

var html=\"

....\"

Answer 1

The answer about using a DOM fragment is on the right track. If you have a bunch of html objects that you are constant inserting into the DOM then you will see some speed improvements using the fragment. This post by John Resig explains it pretty well: http://ejohn.org/blog/dom-documentfragments/