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Run results for:
createElement vs innerHTML vs innerHTML (polling) x 300
createElement vs innerHTML vs innerHTML (polling) x 300
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 128
Operating system:
Linux
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
Test name
Executions per second
createElement
3019.2 Ops/sec
innerHTML
1528.6 Ops/sec
innerHTML (polling)
0.7 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div class='x'></div>
Tests:
createElement
let fragment = new DocumentFragment(); for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) { fragment.appendChild(document.createElement("div")); } document.querySelector(".x").append(fragment);
innerHTML
let fragment = ""; for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) { fragment += "<div></div>"; } document.querySelector(".x").innerHTML = fragment;
innerHTML (polling)
for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) { document.querySelector(".x").innerHTML += "<div></div>"; }