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Run results for:
innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs replaceChildren
innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs replaceChildren
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 124
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
remove
3.8M/s
removeChild
3.6M/s
replaceChildren
1.6M/s
innerHTML
1.5M/s
View exact numbers
Test name
Executions per second
✓
remove
3,817,380 Ops/sec
removeChild
3,579,264 Ops/sec
replaceChildren
1,574,751 Ops/sec
innerHTML
1,452,338 Ops/sec
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();