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createElement vs innerHTML for creating elements in DOM vs DocumentFragment
Speed of inserting DOM elements by various methods
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:144.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/144.0
Browser:
Firefox 144
Operating system:
Linux
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
6 months ago
Test name
Executions per second
createElement
91.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML
0.9 Ops/sec
innerHTML append
355.5 Ops/sec
DocumentFragment
310.9 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="container"></div>
Tests:
createElement
const container = document.getElementById('container'); container.innerHTML = ''; for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { const div = document.createElement('div'); const p = document.createElement('d'); p.classList.add('font-bold'); p.textContent = 'Hello'+i+'!'; div.appendChild(p); container.appendChild(div); } /*cleanup*/ container.innerHTML = '';
innerHTML
const container = document.getElementById('container'); container.innerHTML = ''; for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { container.innerHTML += '<div><p class="font-bold">Hello'+i+'!</p></div>'; } /*cleanup*/ container.innerHTML = '';
innerHTML append
const container = document.getElementById('container'); container.innerHTML = ''; for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { container.append('<div><p class="font-bold">Hello'+i+'!</p></div>'); } /*cleanup*/ container.innerHTML = '';
DocumentFragment
const container = document.getElementById('container'); container.innerHTML = ''; const fragment=document.createDocumentFragment(); for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { const div = document.createElement('div'); const p = document.createElement('d'); p.classList.add('font-bold'); p.textContent = 'Hello'+i+'!'; div.appendChild(p); fragment.appendChild(div); } container.appendChild(fragment); /*cleanup*/ container.innerHTML = '';