Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs replaceChildren

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0

Browser: Firefox 124

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

remove

6.8M/s

removeChild

6.7M/s

innerHTML

4.7M/s

replaceChildren

2.4M/s

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HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');

for(var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

Tests:

innerHTML
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerHTML = '';
removeChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
remove
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove()
replaceChildren
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.replaceChildren();