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JS: insertBefore vs appendChild vs prepend vs insertAdjacentElement
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 136
Operating system:
Linux
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
appendChild
5.7M/s
insertBefore
5.6M/s
insertAdjacentElement
5.0M/s
prepend
3.7M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
appendChild
5,725,209 Ops/sec
insertBefore
5,644,457 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentElement
5,029,589 Ops/sec
prepend
3,706,243 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="container"></div>
Script Preparation code:
var container = document.getElementById("container"); var paragraph = document.createElement("p");
Tests:
insertBefore
container.insertBefore(paragraph, null);
appendChild
container.appendChild(paragraph);
prepend
container.prepend(paragraph);
insertAdjacentElement
container.insertAdjacentElement('afterbegin', paragraph);