Run results for: parentElement vs parentNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

parentNode

26.2M/s

parentElement

26.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ parentNode	26,163,938 Ops/sec
parentElement	26,103,726 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div>
  <div id="div">.</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var div = document.getElementById('div');

Tests: