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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 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:127.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/127.0
Browser:
Firefox 127
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
cloneNode (deep)
12/s
innerHTML
5/s
createElement
5/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
cloneNode (deep)
12 Ops/sec
innerHTML
5 Ops/sec
createElement
5 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; }