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childNodes vs children vs firstChild/nextSibling vs firstElementChild/nextElementSibling
Fastest way to list children
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_2_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Browser:
Mobile Safari 17
Operating system:
iOS 17.2.1
Device Platform:
Mobile
Date tested:
2 years ago
firstChild nextSibling
19.0M/s
firstElementChild nextElementChild
16.9M/s
ChildNodes2
5.5M/s
childNodes
5.0M/s
children
2.9M/s
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Executions per second
✓
firstChild nextSibling
19,046,968 Ops/sec
firstElementChild nextElementChild
16,919,054 Ops/sec
ChildNodes2
5,467,686 Ops/sec
childNodes
5,010,800 Ops/sec
children
2,877,596 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<html> <body> <div id='test'> <div name='a'></div> <div name='b'></div> <div name='c'></div> </div> </body> </html>
Script Preparation code:
var parent = document.getElementById('test');
Tests:
childNodes
parent.childNodes.forEach(function (node) { let n = node; });
children
for (let i = 0; i < parent.children.length; i++) { let n = parent.children[i]; }
firstChild nextSibling
let elem = parent.firstChild; do { let n = elem; } while (elem = elem.nextSibling)
firstElementChild nextElementChild
let elem = parent.firstElementChild; do { let n = elem; } while (elem = elem.nextElementSibling)
ChildNodes2
let children = parent.childNodes; for (let i = 0; i < children.length; i++) { let n = children[i]; }