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Run results for:
innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 135
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
removeChild
22.5M/s
remove
21.6M/s
innerHTML
11.8M/s
textContent
11.3M/s
innerText
8.1M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
removeChild
22,543,872 Ops/sec
remove
21,611,806 Ops/sec
innerHTML
11,802,025 Ops/sec
textContent
11,291,648 Ops/sec
innerText
8,096,574 Ops/sec
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)
remove
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove()
innerText
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerText = '';
textContent
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.textContent = '';