Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent vs replaceChildren

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 130

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

removeChild

5.1M/s

remove

5.1M/s

innerText

3.2M/s

innerHTML

3.1M/s

replaceChildren

2.1M/s

textContent

2.1M/s

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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()
innerText
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerText = '';
textContent
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.textContent = '';
replaceChildren
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.replaceChildren()