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createElement vs cloneNode vs innerHTML
Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13; SM-A536V) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome Mobile 108
Operating system:
Android
Device Platform:
Mobile
Date tested:
2 years ago
cloneNode (deep)
6/s
createElement
2/s
innerHTML
1/s
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Executions per second
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cloneNode (deep)
6 Ops/sec
createElement
2 Ops/sec
innerHTML
1 Ops/sec
Tests:
createElement
const list = []; let n = 0; while(true) { n++; const div = document.createElement('div'); const p = document.createElement('p'); p.classList.add('font-bold'); p.textContent = 'Hello!'; div.appendChild(p); list.push(div); if(n===100000) break; }
cloneNode (deep)
const list = []; let n = 0; const div = document.createElement('div'); const p = document.createElement('p'); p.classList.add('font-bold'); p.textContent = 'Hello!'; div.appendChild(p); while(true) { n++; list.push(div.cloneNode(true)); if(n===100000) break; }
innerHTML
const list = []; let n = 0; while(true) { n++; const div = document.createElement('div'); div.innerHTML = '<p class="font-bold">Hello!</p>'; list.push(div); if(n===100000) break; }