Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent vs replaceChildren (100)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 129

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

remove

5.0M/s

removeChild

5.0M/s

innerText

3.6M/s

innerHTML

2.8M/s

replaceChildren

2.8M/s

textContent

2.7M/s

View exact numbers

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');

for(var i = 0; i < 100; 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()