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JS: insertBefore vs appendChild vs prepend vs insertAdjacentElement
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 120
Operating system:
Linux
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
appendChild
2.5M/s
insertBefore
2.3M/s
insertAdjacentElement
2.2M/s
prepend
1.9M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
appendChild
2,469,503 Ops/sec
insertBefore
2,330,446 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentElement
2,228,084 Ops/sec
prepend
1,863,736 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="container"></div>
Script Preparation code:
var container = document.getElementById("container"); var paragraph = document.createElement("p");
Tests:
insertBefore
container.insertBefore(paragraph, null);
appendChild
container.appendChild(paragraph);
prepend
container.prepend(paragraph);
insertAdjacentElement
container.insertAdjacentElement('afterbegin', paragraph);