Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild(firstChild) vs removechild(lastChild) vs innerText

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0

Browser: Firefox 118

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one month ago

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');

for(var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

Tests:

innerHTML
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerHTML = '';
removeChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
removeChild backwards
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.lastChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)
innerText
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerText = '';