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getElementById vs querySelector vs getElementsByClassName vs getElementsByName
Test performance of different ways of get just one particular DOM element
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0
Browser:
Firefox 120
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
Benchmark engine:
Benchmark.js
querySelector
21.3M/s
getElementById
20.3M/s
getElementsByName
17.1M/s
getElementsByTagName
13.4M/s
getElementsByClassName
12.1M/s
View exact numbers
Test name
Executions per second
✓
querySelector
21,342,784 Ops/sec
getElementById
20,261,236 Ops/sec
getElementsByName
17,140,126 Ops/sec
getElementsByTagName
13,376,141 Ops/sec
getElementsByClassName
12,097,563 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="testdiv"> <div id="unique" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="1">test</div> </div>
Script Preparation code:
var i, imax; var doc = document;
Tests:
getElementById
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').childNodes[0].innerHTML;
getElementsByTagName
var formelem = doc.getElementById('testdiv').getElementsByTagName('div')[0].innerHTML;
querySelector
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').querySelector('.unique').innerHTML;
getElementsByClassName
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').getElementsByClassName('unique')[0].innerHTML;
getElementsByName
var test = doc.getElementsByName('unique')[0].innerHTML;