Run results for: DOM manipulation vs innerhtml long - 2 - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.93 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 90

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	2663.8 Ops/sec
DOM manipulation innerText	3812.5 Ops/sec
DOM manipulation innerHTML	1641.6 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;"> <span class="testing">0</span> <span class="testing">1</span> <span class="testing">2</span> <span class="testing">3</span> <span class="testing">4</span> <span class="testing">5</span> <span class="testing">6</span> <span class="testing">7</span> <span class="testing">8</span> <span class="testing">9</span> <span class="testing">0</span> <span class="testing">1</span> <span class="testing">2</span> <span class="testing">3</span> <span class="testing">4</span> <span class="testing">5</span> <span class="testing">6</span> <span class="testing">7</span> <span class="testing">8</span> <span class="testing">9</span> <span class="testing">0</span> <span class="testing">1</span> <span class="testing">2</span> <span class="testing">3</span> <span class="testing">4</span> <span class="testing">5</span> <span class="testing">6</span> <span class="testing">7</span> <span class="testing">8</span> <span class="testing">9</span> <span class="testing">0</span> <span class="testing">1</span> <span class="testing">2</span> <span class="testing">3</span> <span class="testing">4</span> <span class="testing">5</span> <span class="testing">6</span> <span class="testing">7</span> <span class="testing">8</span> <span class="testing">9</span> <span class="testing">0</span> <span class="testing">1</span> <span class="testing">2</span> <span class="testing">3</span> <span class="testing">4</span> <span class="testing">5</span> <span class="testing">6</span> <span class="testing">7</span> <span class="testing">8</span> <span class="testing">9</span> <span class="testing">0</span> <span class="testing">1</span> <span class="testing">2</span> <span class="testing">3</span> <span class="testing">4</span> <span class="testing">5</span> <span class="testing">6</span> <span class="testing">7</span> <span class="testing">8</span> <span class="testing">9</span> <span class="testing">0</span> <span class="testing">1</span> <span class="testing">2</span> <span class="testing">3</span> <span class="testing">4</span> <span class="testing">5</span> <span class="testing">6</span> <span class="testing">7</span> <span class="testing">8</span> <span class="testing">9</span> <span class="testing">0</span> <span class="testing">1</span> <span class="testing">2</span> <span class="testing">3</span> <span class="testing">4</span> <span class="testing">5</span> <span class="testing">6</span> <span class="testing">7</span> <span class="testing">8</span> <span class="testing">9</span> <span class="testing">0</span> <span class="testing">1</span> <span class="testing">2</span> <span class="testing">3</span> <span class="testing">4</span> <span class="testing">5</span> <span class="testing">6</span> <span class="testing">7</span> <span class="testing">8</span> <span class="testing">9</span> <span class="testing">0</span> <span class="testing">1</span> <span class="testing">2</span> <span class="testing">3</span> <span class="testing">4</span> <span class="testing">5</span> <span class="testing">6</span> <span class="testing">7</span> <span class="testing">8</span> <span class="testing">9</span> <span class="testing">0</span> <span class="testing">1</span> <span class="testing">2</span> <span class="testing">3</span> <span class="testing">4</span> <span class="testing">5</span> <span class="testing">6</span> <span class="testing">7</span> <span class="testing">8</span> <span class="testing">9</span> <span class="testing">0</span> <span class="testing">1</span> <span class="testing">2</span> <span class="testing">3</span> <span class="testing">4</span> <span class="testing">5</span> <span class="testing">6</span> <span class="testing">7</span> <span class="testing">8</span> <span class="testing">9</span> <span class="testing">0</span> <span class="testing">1</span> <span class="testing">2</span> <span class="testing">3</span> <span class="testing">4</span> <span class="testing">5</span> <span class="testing">6</span> <span class="testing">7</span> <span class="testing">8</span> <span class="testing">9</span> </div>`
DOM manipulation innerText
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;" for (let i=0; i<100;i++) { let itemSpan = document.createElement('span') itemSpan.className = "testing"; itemSpan.innerText = i; itemBox.appendChild(itemSpan); } root.appendChild(itemBox)
DOM manipulation innerHTML
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;" for (let i=0; i<100;i++) { let itemSpan = document.createElement('span') itemSpan.className = "testing"; itemSpan.innerHTML = i; itemBox.appendChild(itemSpan); } root.appendChild(itemBox)