Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent vs replaceChildren vs removechild (reverse) vs remove (reverse)

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

removeChild reverse

9.6M/s

remove

9.5M/s

remove reverse

9.5M/s

removeChild

9.5M/s

textContent

7.0M/s

innerText

6.8M/s

innerHTML

6.7M/s

replaceChildren

3.3M/s

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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 = '';
replaceChildren
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.replaceChildren()
remove reverse
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.lastChild) node.lastChild.remove()
removeChild reverse
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.lastChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)