firefox to many dom elements table to css?

im making a memberlist for my website, we got 500+ members and want them on 1 page. we used tables before but this makes many 开发者_Python百科dom elements and firefox says it gets slow.

is there a way to make a list with 3/4 colums with css to avoid the nr. of dom elementst?

greets. stefan

In cases like this, the best way to display 500 elements is with Javascript. Having 500 records as JSON is not that big of a memory hog, totally acceptable. You'd have to make a dynamically updating table that takes the records from memory and displays only 40 rows at a time. You could also implement search etc in JS to make it more user friendly.