Good afternoon,

I'm not sure there's an answer, but thought I'd ask the question.

I have a tree, rather large, which I'm loading with manual, demand load.  I am also adding 3 icons to the text of  a lot of the child nodes to indicate they can be clicked to open a document.  Icons are the standard pdf, html, and word icons.  I add these to each node via hand built anchor tags at run-time <a class=\"HTMLicon\" ID=\"doc\" href=" + HTMlink + " target=\"_blank\" title=\"HTML\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"> and assign the icons in the CSS file.  This must be run-time as it depends on the data of the node. 

The performance is fine with FireFox and Safari, but in IE the tree dogs along when expanding or collapsing a large node with a lot of icons.  I've turned off node selection, node editing, and anything else I can think of that would interfere with performance.

Is there any way to optimize behavior in IE?  The only alternative I have found so far is to replace the icons with text( ...>pdf   htm  doc</a> )  This makes performance nice in IE finally, but I'd really like to include the icons.

Any throughts?

Thanks,
Dan