ignore element and children in morph

[daaku]

I'm using this successfully for an improved experience with various input fields in forms (via htmx). Part of my replace target though includes large number of elements, which I know in advance can be ignored. As far as I can tell there isn't a way to indicate that an element and it's children should be ignored by the morphing algorithm to improve the performance is there?

The UX pattern here is fairly simple - a search results page with a form of inputs to control the search, and a large table/list of results. The form of inputs needs to be replaced in order to reflect the updated hidden fields etc that are related to the visible input elements. So the hx-swap targets the element containing the form as well as the results.