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JS: insertBefore vs append vs prepend
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:141.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/141.0
Browser:
Firefox 141
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
9 months ago
Test name
Executions per second
insertBefore
18506.6 Ops/sec
append
37164.6 Ops/sec
prepend
12130.4 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="container"></div>
Script Preparation code:
var container = document.getElementById("container"); var paragraphs = new Array( 100 ).fill( 'p' );
Tests:
insertBefore
paragraphs.forEach( p => container.insertBefore( document.createElement( p ), null ) );
append
container.append( ...paragraphs.map( p => document.createElement( p ) ) );
prepend
paragraphs.forEach( p => container.prepend( document.createElement( p ) ) );