Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild multiple elements

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 12; Mobile; rv:120.0) Gecko/120.0 Firefox/120.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 120

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

appendChild

14K/s

append

13K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ appendChild	13,627 Ops/sec
append	12,803 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");
var paragraph = document.createElement("p");
var paragraph1 = document.createElement("p");
var paragraph2 = document.createElement("p");
var paragraph3 = document.createElement("p");

Tests:

append
container.append(paragraph,paragraph1,paragraph2,paragraph3);
appendChild
container.appendChild(paragraph); container.appendChild(paragraph1); container.appendChild(paragraph2); container.appendChild(paragraph3);