== Why is this an issue?

Element selections that could be matched anywhere in the document can be very slow. That's why use of the universal selector, ``++*++``, should be limited; it explicitly specifies that the match could be anywhere.


=== Noncompliant code example

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$( ".buttons > *" );  // Noncompliant; extremely expensive
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=== Compliant solution

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$( ".buttons" ).children(); // Compliant
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== Implementation Specification
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=== Message

* Remove the use of this universal selector.


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== Comments And Links
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=== on 17 Mar 2015, 11:02:13 Linda Martin wrote:
\[~ann.campbell.2] assign for completion and review.



=== on 1 Nov 2019, 17:28:58 Elena Vilchik wrote:
See \https://github.com/SonarSource/SonarJS/issues/1698

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