Run results for: Remove all children from DOM node

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0

Browser: Firefox 135

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

HTML Preparation code:

<div id='messages'></div>

Script Preparation code:

let list = document.getElementById("messages");
for(i=0; i<1000; i++) {
	list.innerHTML += "<span>Text</span>"
}

Tests:

Remove firstChild
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); while (list.firstChild) { list.removeChild(list.firstChild); }
Remove lastChild
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); while (list.firstChild) { list.removeChild(list.firstChild); }
innerHTML
document.getElementById("messages").innerHTML = "";
innerText
document.getElementById("messages").innerText = "";
textContent
document.getElementById("messages").textContent = "";
firstChild.remove
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); while (list.firstChild) { list.firstChild.remove() }
range
var range = new Range(); range.selectNodeContents(document.getElementById("messages")); range.deleteContents();
replaceChildren
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); list.replaceChildren();
childNodes
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); for (const node of [...list.childNodes]) { node.remove() }