Run results for: Change text of list items: jQuery vs. vanilla JS

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

Browser: IE 11

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	19.2 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS	5.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

    <ul id="theList">
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
      <li>Item</li>    
    </ul>

Tests:

jQuery
var els = $('#theList li'); els.each(function() { $(this).text('Changed'); });
Vanilla JS
var els = document.querySelectorAll('#theList li'); Array.prototype.slice.call(els).forEach(function(el) { el.textContent = 'Changed'; });

Run results for: Change text of list items: jQuery vs. vanilla JS

Get the items from a list and change the text of each of them.

jQuery

Vanilla JS