Run results for: getElementById vs querySelector(css) vs getElementsByClassName vs getElementsByName

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 139

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 11 months ago

getElementById

7.4M/s

getElementById unique

6.1M/s

getElementsByTagName

3.8M/s

querySelector

3.5M/s

getElementsByClassName

3.4M/s

querySelector (unique id)

2.9M/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<div id="testdiv">
  <div id="unique" class="unique" name="unique" data-unique="1">test</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var i, imax;
var doc = document;

Tests:

getElementById
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').childNodes[0].innerHTML;
getElementsByTagName
var formelem = doc.getElementById('testdiv').getElementsByTagName('div')[0].innerHTML;
querySelector
var test = doc.querySelector('#testdiv .unique').innerHTML;
getElementsByClassName
var test = doc.getElementById('testdiv').getElementsByClassName('unique')[0].innerHTML;
getElementById unique
var formelem = doc.getElementById('unique').innerHTML;
querySelector (unique id)
var formelem = doc.querySelector('#unique').innerHTML;