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getElementById vs querySelector vs getElementsByClassName vs getElementsByName
Test performance of different ways of get just one particular DOM element
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3.1 Safari/605.1.15
Browser:
Safari 18
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
Benchmark engine:
Benchmark.js
getElementById
36.3M/s
getElementsByName
9.6M/s
getElementsByTagName
9.4M/s
getElementsByClassName
9.2M/s
querySelector
5.8M/s
View exact numbers
Test name
Executions per second
✓
getElementById
36,342,704 Ops/sec
getElementsByName
9,584,145 Ops/sec
getElementsByTagName
9,357,580 Ops/sec
getElementsByClassName
9,164,302 Ops/sec
querySelector
5,847,010 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="testdiv"> <div id="unique" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="1">test</div> </div>
Script Preparation code:
var i, imax; var doc = document;
Tests:
getElementById
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').childNodes[0].innerHTML;
getElementsByTagName
var formelem = doc.getElementById('testdiv').getElementsByTagName('div')[0].innerHTML;
querySelector
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').querySelector('.unique').innerHTML;
getElementsByClassName
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').getElementsByClassName('unique')[0].innerHTML;
getElementsByName
var test = doc.getElementsByName('unique')[0].innerHTML;