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childNodes vs children vs firstChild/nextSibling vs firstElementChild/nextElementSibling
Fastest way to list children
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 125
Operating system:
Linux
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
firstElementChild nextElementChild
3.2M/s
firstChild nextSibling
2.4M/s
ChildNodes2
861K/s
children
528K/s
childNodes
304K/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
firstElementChild nextElementChild
3,192,790 Ops/sec
firstChild nextSibling
2,360,474 Ops/sec
ChildNodes2
861,176 Ops/sec
children
528,437 Ops/sec
childNodes
303,950 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<html> <body> <div id='test'> <div name='a'></div> <div name='b'></div> <div name='c'></div> </div> </body> </html>
Script Preparation code:
var parent = document.getElementById('test');
Tests:
childNodes
parent.childNodes.forEach(function (node) { let n = node; });
children
for (let i = 0; i < parent.children.length; i++) { let n = parent.children[i]; }
firstChild nextSibling
let elem = parent.firstChild; do { let n = elem; } while (elem = elem.nextSibling)
firstElementChild nextElementChild
let elem = parent.firstElementChild; do { let n = elem; } while (elem = elem.nextElementSibling)
ChildNodes2
let children = parent.childNodes; for (let i = 0; i < children.length; i++) { let n = children[i]; }