Run results for: Remove all children from DOM element

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 10; Mobile; rv:122.0) Gecko/122.0 Firefox/122.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 122

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

firstChild.remove

3.5M/s

Remove firstChild

3.5M/s

Remove lastChild

3.5M/s

textContent

2.8M/s

innerHTML

2.7M/s

innerText

2.5M/s

range

753K/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<div id='messages'></div>

Script Preparation code:

let list = document.getElementById("messages");
for(i=0; i<1000; i++) {
	list.innerHTML += "<span>Text</span>"
}

Tests:

Remove firstChild
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); while (list.firstChild) { list.removeChild(list.firstChild); }
Remove lastChild
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); while (list.firstChild) { list.removeChild(list.firstChild); }
innerHTML
document.getElementById("messages").innerHTML = "";
innerText
document.getElementById("messages").innerText = "";
textContent
document.getElementById("messages").textContent = "";
firstChild.remove
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); while (list.firstChild) { list.firstChild.remove() }
range
var range = new Range(); range.selectNodeContents(document.getElementById("messages")); range.deleteContents();