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getElementById and getElementsByClassName [0] vs querySelector
Test performance of different ways of get just one particular DOM element
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/109.0.0.0
Browser:
Opera 109
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
getElementById
4.3M/s
getElementById and getElementsByClassName
2.2M/s
querySelector
2.0M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
getElementById
4,348,930 Ops/sec
getElementById and getElementsByClassName
2,193,855 Ops/sec
querySelector
1,997,115 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="testdiv"> <div id="unique1" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="1">test1</div> <div id="unique2" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="2">test2</div> <div id="unique3" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="3">test3</div> <div id="unique4" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="4">test4</div> <div id="unique5" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="5">test5</div> </div>
Script Preparation code:
var i, imax; var doc = document;
Tests:
getElementById
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').childNodes[0].innerHTML;
querySelector
var test = doc.querySelector('#testdiv .unique').innerHTML;
getElementById and getElementsByClassName
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').getElementsByClassName('unique')[0].innerHTML;