why is my context selector and .buttonset() taking so long in ie

Question

So I assume this is something I'm doing flagrantly wrong. It is soo slow in ie there must be something fundamentally wrong with this.

Le HTML

<div id='mother'>

  <div id="radio">
    <input type="radio" id="radio1" name="radio" />
      <label for="radio1">Choice 1</label>
    <input type="radio" id="radio2" name="radio" checked="checked" />
      <label for="radio2">Choice 2</label>
  </div>

  <div id="radioTwa">
    <input type="radio" id="radioTwa1" name="radioTwa" />
      <label for="radioTwa1">Choice 1</label>
    <input type="radio" id="radioTwa2" name="radioTwa" checked="checked" />
      <label for="radioTwa2">Choice 2</label>

  </div>

  <div id="check">
    <input type="checkbox" id="check1" name="check" />
      <label for="check1">Choice 1</label>
    <input type="checkbox" id="check2" name="check" checked="checked" />
      <label for="check2">Choice 2</label>

  </div>

</div>​​​​​​​​​​​​

Le JQuery/JQuery UI

    var mother = $('​​​​​​​​​​​​​​#mother');
​    mother.find('#radio').buttonset();​​​​​​
    mother.find('#radioTwa').buttonset();
    mother.find('#check').buttonset();

or

    var mother = $(​​​​​​​​​​​​​​'#mother');
​    $('#radio', mother).buttonset();​​​​​​
    $('#radioTwa', mother).buttonset();
    $('#check', mother).buttonset();

Both of these will bring IE 8 to it's knees and make it cry. To nip some things in the bud I am using the context of mother on purpose. I do not have a unique ID to each radio box, I planned to select them using context, because of the number 'mother' type divs that are on the page though each mother div element I am using only has about 8 or 9 elements within it. Is there no way to select using context in IE 8 that is quick enough to not grind it to a halt?

Answer 1

How many buttons do you have total? There seems to be a few compliants about slow buttonssets on stackoverlow. Also I found bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/5454 – Nal