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createElement vs cloneNode vs innerHTML
Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.1.1 Safari/605.1.15
Browser:
Safari 18
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
cloneNode (deep)
54/s
innerHTML
27/s
createElement
17/s
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cloneNode (deep)
54 Ops/sec
innerHTML
27 Ops/sec
createElement
17 Ops/sec
Tests:
createElement
const list = []; let n = 0; while(true) { n++; const div = document.createElement('div'); const p = document.createElement('p'); p.classList.add('font-bold'); p.textContent = 'Hello!'; div.appendChild(p); list.push(div); if(n===100000) break; }
cloneNode (deep)
const list = []; let n = 0; const div = document.createElement('div'); const p = document.createElement('p'); p.classList.add('font-bold'); p.textContent = 'Hello!'; div.appendChild(p); while(true) { n++; list.push(div.cloneNode(true)); if(n===100000) break; }
innerHTML
const list = []; let n = 0; while(true) { n++; const div = document.createElement('div'); div.innerHTML = '<p class="font-bold">Hello!</p>'; list.push(div); if(n===100000) break; }