Run results for: parentElement vs parentNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 129

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

parentNode

10.3M/s

parentElement

10.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ parentNode	10,273,340 Ops/sec
parentElement	10,213,517 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div>
  <div id="div">.</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var div = document.getElementById('div');

Tests: