Optimize jQuery code

Question

I've written this jQuery code that fades in a overlay with some links over an image. What i found out is that it is painfully slow when I add like 10 of these images. I would really appreciate some tips and tricks on how to make this code faster.

If you have some tips for my HTML and CSS that would be great too ;)

jQuery code

$(document).ready(function() {
var div = $(".thumb").find("div");
div.fadeTo(0, 0);
div.css("display","block");
$(".thumb").hover(
  function () {
      $(this).children(".download").fadeTo("fast", 1);
      $(this).children(".hud").fadeTo("fast", 0.7);
  }, 
  function () {
      div.fadeTo("fast", 0);
  }
);
});

All the code

<style type="text/css">
a:active {
    outline:none;
}
:focus {
    -moz-outline-style:none;
}
img {
    border: none;
}
#backgrounds {
    font: 82.5% "Lucida Grande", Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif;
    margin: 50px 0 0 0;
    padding: 0;
    width: 585px;
}
.thumb {
    margin: 5px;
    position: relative;
    float: left;
}
.thumb img {
    background: #fff;
    border: solid 1px #ccc;
    padding: 4px;
}
.thumb div {
    display: none;
}
.thumb .download {
    color: #fff;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    z-index: 999;
    padding: 0 10px;
}
.thumb .download h3 {
    font-size: 14px;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
    margin-top: 13px;
    text-align: center;
}
.thumb .download a {
    font-size: 11px;
    color: #fff;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight: bold;
    line-height: 16px;
}
.thumb .download a:hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
}
.thumb .download .left, .thumb .download .right {
    width: 44%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 4px;
}
.thumb .download .left {
    float: left;
    text-align: right;
}
.thumb .download .right {
    float: right;
    text-align: left;
}
.thumb img, .thumb .hud {
    -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
    -moz-border-radius: 5px;
    border-radius: 5px;
}
.thumb .hud {
    width: 100%;
    height: 110px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    background: #000;
}
</style>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var div = $(".thumb").find("div");
div.fadeTo(0, 0);
div.css("display","block");
$(".thumb").hover(
  function () {
      $(this).children(".download").fadeTo("fast", 1);
      $(this).children(".hud").fadeTo("fast", 0.7);
  }, 
  function () {
      div.fadeTo("fast", 0);
  }
);
});
</script>

<div id="backgrounds">


<div class="thumb">
    <div class="download">
    <h3>Download wallpaper</h3>
    <p class="left">
    <a href="1024x768.jpg">1024x768</a>
    <a href="1280x800.jpg">1280x800</a>
    <a href="1280x1024.jpg">1280x1024</a>
    </p>
    <p class="right">
    <a href="1440x900.jpg">1440x900</a>
    <a href="1680x1050.jpg">1680x1050</a>
    <a href="1920x1200.jpg">1920x1200</a>
    </p>
    </div>
    <div class="hud"></div>
    <img alt="image" src="thumb.jpg"/>
</div>



</div>

Answer 1

I got it to respond a little better by simply changing the following within the hover(..):

  function () {
    $(".download", this).fadeTo("fast", 1);
    $(".hud", this).fadeTo("fast", 0.7);
  }, 
  function () {
    $(".download, .hud", this).fadeTo("fast", 0);
  }

The biggest difference comes from only applying the hoverout effect to the event target, no need to reapply to all your divs on the page.