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 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 145

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

removeChild

37.0M/s

removeChild reverse

32.6M/s

remove reverse

31.8M/s

remove

29.9M/s

replaceChildren

16.5M/s

innerHTML

16.2M/s

textContent

14.1M/s

innerText

10.5M/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)