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Different ways (template, vanilla js, innerHTML) to create DOM node
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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
Test name
Executions per second
Simple - Template
289016.5 Ops/sec
Simple - JavaScript
295494.3 Ops/sec
Simple - innerHTML
212400.8 Ops/sec
Complex - Template
99840.8 Ops/sec
Complex - JavaScript
45408.1 Ops/sec
Complex - innerHTML
77141.2 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var simpleTemplate = document.createElement("template"); simpleTemplate.innerHTML = `<span class="simple"></span>`; var complexTemplate = document.createElement("template"); complexTemplate.innerHTML = `<span class="complex"> <span class="simple-1"></span> <span class="simple-2"> <span class="simple-2-1"></span> </span> <span class="simple-3"> <span class="simple-3-1"></span> </span> <span class="simple-4"></span> </span>`;
Tests:
Simple - Template
let el = document.createElement("div"); let content = simpleTemplate.content.cloneNode(true); el.appendChild(content);
Simple - JavaScript
let el = document.createElement("div"); let content = document.createElement("span") content.classList.add("simple"); el.appendChild(content);
Simple - innerHTML
let el = document.createElement("div"); el.innerHTML = `<span class="simple"></span>`;
Complex - Template
let el = document.createElement("div"); let content = complexTemplate.content.cloneNode(true); el.appendChild(content);
Complex - JavaScript
let el = document.createElement("span"); el.classList.add("complex"); let span1 = document.createElement("span"); span1.classList.add("simple-1"); let span2 = document.createElement("span"); span2.classList.add("simple-2"); let span21 = document.createElement("span"); span21.classList.add("simple-2-1"); span2.appendChild(span21); let span3 = document.createElement("span"); span3.classList.add("simple-3"); let span31 = document.createElement("span"); span31.classList.add("simple-31"); span3.appendChild(span31); let span4 = document.createElement("span"); span4.classList.add("simple-4"); el.append(span1, span2, span3, span4);
Complex - innerHTML
let el = document.createElement("div"); el.innerHTML = `<span class="complex"> <span class="simple-1"></span> <span class="simple-2"> <span class="simple-2-1"></span> </span> <span class="simple-3"> <span class="simple-3-1"></span> </span> <span class="simple-4"></span> </span>`;