Run results for: DOM manipulation vs innerhtml

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36 Edg/87.0.664.57

Browser: Chrome 87

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	158867.4 Ops/sec
DOM manipulation	85979.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="root"></div>

Tests:

innerHTML
let root = document.querySelector('#root') root.innerHTML = `<div id="4/4b809ca8-b600-a286-62b6-83a6a5fc4310" style="left: 0px; top: 0px; white-space: nowrap;">0</div>`
DOM manipulation
let root = document.querySelector('#root') let itemBox = document.createElement('div') itemBox.id = "4/4b809ca8-b600-a286-62b6-83a6a5fc4310" itemBox.style = "left: 0px; top: 0px; white-space: nowrap;" itemBox.innerHTML = `0` root.appendChild(itemBox)