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Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.232 Whale/2.10.124.26 Safari/537.36
Chrome 90
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Desktop
3 years ago
Test name Executions per second
innerHTML 5828937.0 Ops/sec
removeChild 6973682.0 Ops/sec
remove 6869478.0 Ops/sec
innerText 4671380.0 Ops/sec
textContent 5682248.5 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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<div id="container"></div>
Script Preparation code:
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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 = '';