Run results for: parent vs closest 3

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 139

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 9 months ago

closest tag

26.7M/s

closest class

26.3M/s

parentNode

25.0M/s

parentElement

24.1M/s

closest tag class

21.6M/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<span class="span">
  <div>
    <div id='it'>
    </div>
  </div>
</span>

Script Preparation code:

var it = document.getElementById("it");

Tests:

parentElement
while (it !== null && it.className.indexOf("span") === -1) { it = it.parentElement; }
closest tag
it.closest('span')
closest class
it.closest('.span')
closest tag class
it.closest('span.span')
parentNode
while (it.className.indexOf("span") === -1) { it = it.parentNode; if(it === document) { it = null break } }