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createElement vs innerHTML(template)
Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 121
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
Test name
Executions per second
createElement
3.4 Ops/sec
innerHTML
2.0 Ops/sec
Tests:
createElement
const list = []; let n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push( document.createElement('div') .appendChild( Object.assign(document.createElement('p'), { className: 'font-bold', textContent: 'Hello!' }) ) ); if(n===100000) break; }
innerHTML
const list = []; let n = 0; const template = document.createElement('template'); while(true) { n++; template.innerHTML = '<div><p class="font-bold">Hello!</p></div>'; list.push(template.content.cloneNode(true)); if(n===100000) break; }