Remember that jQuery's selectors can be used separately: they're a wrapper around the Sizzle library. It's 5kb after minification and gzip. http://sizzlejs.com

Remember that jQuery's selectors can be used separately: they're a wrapper around the Sizzle library. It's 5kb after minification and gzip. http://sizzlejs.com/ http://sizzlejs.com/ Can't speak to the performance relative to JQuery or to raw javascript however.