jquery - fastest way to remove all rows from a very large table

Question

I thought this might be a fast way to remove the contents of a very large table (3000 rows):

$jq("tbody", myTable).remove(); 

But it's taking around five seconds to complete in firefox. Am I doing something dumb (aside from trying to load 3000 rows in to a browser)? Is there faster way to do it?

Answer 1

$("#your-table-id").empty(); 

That's as fast as you get.

Answer 2

It's better to avoid any kind of loops, just remove all elements directly like this:

$("#mytable > tbody").html("");