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Get elements by class: jQuery vs querySelectorAll vs getElementsByClassName 👻
Compare various methods of obtaining a group of elements identified by class name
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0
Browser:
Firefox 133
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
Test name
Executions per second
jQuery-
1383309.6 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll
1227435.5 Ops/sec
getElementsByClassName
6786428.5 Ops/sec
jQuery: mixed selector
628169.7 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll: mixed selector
908958.9 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<ul id="theList"> <li class="odd">Item 1</li> <li class="even">Item 2</li> <li class="odd">Item 3</li> <li class="even">Item 4</li> <li class="odd">Item 5</li> <li class="even">Item 6</li> <li class="odd">Item 7</li> <li class="even">Item 8</li> <li class="odd">Item 9</li> <li class="even">Item 10</li> <li class="odd">Item 11</li> <li class="even">Item 12</li> <li class="odd">Item 13</li> <li class="even">Item 14</li> <li class="odd">Item 15</li> <li class="even">Item 16</li> <li class="odd">Item 17</li> <li class="even">Item 18</li> <li class="odd">Item 19</li> <li class="even">Item 20</li> <li class="odd">Item 21</li> <li class="even">Item 22</li> <li class="odd">Item 23</li> <li class="even">Item 24</li> <li class="odd">Item 25</li> <li class="even">Item 26</li> <li class="odd">Item 27</li> <li class="even">Item 28</li> <li class="odd">Item 29</li> <li class="even">Item 30</li> </ul> <script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>
Tests:
jQuery-
var els = $('.even');
querySelectorAll
var els = document.querySelectorAll('.even');
getElementsByClassName
var els = document.getElementsByClassName('even');
jQuery: mixed selector
var els = $('li.even');
querySelectorAll: mixed selector
var els = document.querySelectorAll('li.even');