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createElement vs innerHTML for creating elements in DOM
Speed of inserting DOM elements by various methods
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.3.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Browser:
Mobile Safari 17
Operating system:
iOS 17.3.1
Device Platform:
Mobile
Date tested:
2 years ago
Test name
Executions per second
createElement
857.3 Ops/sec
innerHTML
3.1 Ops/sec
innerHTML append
1201.3 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="container"></div>
Tests:
createElement
const container = document.getElementById('container'); container.innerHTML = ''; for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { const div = document.createElement('div'); const p = document.createElement('d'); p.classList.add('font-bold'); p.textContent = 'Hello'+i+'!'; div.appendChild(p); container.appendChild(div); } /*cleanup*/ container.innerHTML = '';
innerHTML
const container = document.getElementById('container'); container.innerHTML = ''; for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { container.innerHTML += '<div><p class="font-bold">Hello'+i+'!</p></div>'; } /*cleanup*/ container.innerHTML = '';
innerHTML append
const container = document.getElementById('container'); container.innerHTML = ''; for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { container.append('<div><p class="font-bold">Hello'+i+'!</p></div>'); } /*cleanup*/ container.innerHTML = '';