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JS: insertBefore vs appendChild vs prepend vs insertAdjacentElement
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 126
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
appendChild
1.3M/s
insertBefore
1.3M/s
insertAdjacentElement
1.1M/s
prepend
1.1M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
appendChild
1,278,132 Ops/sec
insertBefore
1,272,415 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentElement
1,084,716 Ops/sec
prepend
1,067,224 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="container"></div>
Script Preparation code:
var container = document.getElementById("container"); var paragraph = document.createElement("p");
Tests:
insertBefore
container.insertBefore(paragraph, null);
appendChild
container.appendChild(paragraph);
prepend
container.prepend(paragraph);
insertAdjacentElement
container.insertAdjacentElement('afterbegin', paragraph);