Run results for: Remove all children from DOM element with lastChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0

Browser: Firefox 102

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Remove lastChild

4.5M/s

Remove firstChild

4.5M/s

firstChild.remove

4.5M/s

textContent

3.6M/s

innerHTML

3.5M/s

innerText

3.4M/s

range

920K/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<div id='messages'></div>

Script Preparation code:

let list = document.getElementById("messages");
for(i=0; i<1000; i++) {
	list.innerHTML += "<span>Text</span>"
}

Tests:

Remove firstChild
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); while (list.firstChild) { list.removeChild(list.firstChild); }
Remove lastChild
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); var last; while (last = list.lastChild) list.removeChild(last);
innerHTML
document.getElementById("messages").innerHTML = "";
innerText
document.getElementById("messages").innerText = "";
textContent
document.getElementById("messages").textContent = "";
firstChild.remove
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); while (list.firstChild) { list.firstChild.remove() }
range
var range = new Range(); range.selectNodeContents(document.getElementById("messages")); range.deleteContents();