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JS: insertBefore vs appendChild vs prepend vs insertAdjacentElement
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/137.0.0.0
Browser:
Chrome 137
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
11 months ago
Test name
Executions per second
insertBefore
5332769.5 Ops/sec
appendChild
5475996.0 Ops/sec
prepend
3843095.2 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentElement
4361968.5 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);