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JS: append vs appendChild multiple nodes
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0.1 Safari/605.1.15
Browser:
Safari 18
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
Test name
Executions per second
append
10204.6 Ops/sec
appendChild
12135.6 Ops/sec
document.fragment
5086.0 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="container"></div>
Script Preparation code:
var paragraphs = Array.from({length: 1000}, () => document.createElement("p")); var container = document.getElementById("container");
Tests:
append
container.append(...paragraphs);
appendChild
for (let i = 0; i < paragraphs.length; i++) { container.appendChild(paragraphs[i]); }
document.fragment
const fragment = new DocumentFragment(); for (let i = 0; i < paragraphs.length; i++) { fragment.append(paragraphs[i]); } container.append(fragment);