Run results for: JQuery: find vs id selector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

find with id

3.3M/s

find with tag selector

1.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ find with id	3,318,221 Ops/sec
find with tag selector	1,649,715 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<a id="parent" >
  <span id="child">Need span</span>
  <svg class="icon md-16 icon-shevron-right text-muted"></svg>
</a>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var $element = $("#parent");

Tests:

find with tag selector
$element.find("span");
find with id
$("#child");

Run results for: JQuery: find vs id selector

Test which solution find quicker element

find with tag selector

find with id