title: jQuery closest behaviour in IE very slow
body: <p>I have a table with 5000 rows. In each row I have an html element. myElementList is the list of those elements. Now I need to select all the tr's of these elements. I am using the following code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>myElementList.closest('tr');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This work great in FF. But when I run the same in IE 8. The browser hangs out and a popup messgae appears that propmt for to stop the script.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestion why I am seeing this behaviour or thier is any alternative.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong>:</p>
  
  <p>The behaviour remains same when I use parents()</p>
  
  <pre><code> myElementList.parents('tr');
  </code></pre>