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JS: insertBefore vs appendChild vs prepend vs insertAdjacentElement
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 131
Operating system:
Linux
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
appendChild
3.7M/s
insertBefore
3.7M/s
insertAdjacentElement
3.1M/s
prepend
2.9M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
appendChild
3,730,319 Ops/sec
insertBefore
3,663,636 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentElement
3,112,423 Ops/sec
prepend
2,887,365 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="container"></div>
Script Preparation code:
var container = document.getElementById("container"); var paragraph = document.createElement("p");
Tests:
insertBefore
container.insertBefore(paragraph, null);
appendChild
container.appendChild(paragraph);
prepend
container.prepend(paragraph);
insertAdjacentElement
container.insertAdjacentElement('afterbegin', paragraph);