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Run results for:
innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 146
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
4 months ago
removeChild
51.8M/s
remove
51.8M/s
textContent
25.3M/s
innerHTML
23.1M/s
innerText
20.2M/s
View exact numbers
Test name
Executions per second
✓
removeChild
51,819,844 Ops/sec
remove
51,810,136 Ops/sec
textContent
25,333,116 Ops/sec
innerHTML
23,113,144 Ops/sec
innerText
20,213,582 Ops/sec
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 = '';