Flexigrid - Lightweight but rich data grid

[eluser]TheJayL[/eluser]
I've been looking for the source of the memory leak for a few days now. One thing that seemed to help (but I didnt test properly), was nulling out every single var once it is about to go out of scope. This took my app from around 5MB leaked, to between 1 and 2.5 mem leaked.

I also am using Drip and it is telling me that my leakage is mainly Divs, and also Bold Text. Now, I have in a cell of the grid a cell with all 26 letters of the alphabet, each one a seperate dom element so they can be different colors based on program. All of these show up.

So after more snooping I found:
http://blog.systemcoder.com/2006/12/why-...-ajax.html

which basically says never ever use "inner HTML" in code because it always leaks. It does mention IE6+ as the problem, so I assume IE7 is the same.

the innerHTML command is used extensively in the grid, does anyone have any insight as to this being the culprit for the majority of the leaking.

***GOTTA LOVE MICROSOFT**********

Edit***
I ran Drip on your main page for flexigrid, it seems to be having the same leaks as my page. Please if anyone has found a solution to this leakage let me know.

The leak gets worse the more items are in the grid. Seems every DIV in each cell is leaking as well as any formatting tags like bold or italic. There are a few other leaks as well like the tbody and table itself, but I can deal with a few leaks. The leaks coming from inside the grid though I cannot.

I have tried the purge function at http://javascript.crockford.com/memory/leak.html and it doesn't help, and the jquery people were no good either.