Run results for: closest vs querySelector

Goal: Get the target element inside the DOM Test case #1 - You don't have the target id - Find a target element through DOM via Element.closest() Test case #2 - You have the target id from your state - Find the target element via Document.querySelector()

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Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:141.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/141.0

Browser: Firefox 141

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

querySelector

6.6M/s

closest

5.4M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ querySelector	6,551,952 Ops/sec
closest	5,370,308 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div><div><div>

<div data-parent="parent-id">

  <div><div>

    <div data-target="target-id">

      <div><div>

        <div data-clicked="clicked-id"></div>

      </div></div>

    </div>

  </div></div>

</div>

</div></div></div>

Script Preparation code:

var clicked = document.querySelector('[data-clicked]')
var parentEl = document.querySelector('[data-parent="parent-id"]')

Tests:

closest
clicked.closest('[data-target]')
querySelector
parentEl.querySelector('[data-target="target-id"]')