Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.69 Safari/537.36
Chrome 95
Linux
Desktop
3 years ago
Test name Executions per second
contains 2040790.4 Ops/sec
closest 1822871.1 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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<div id='div1'>
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  <div id='div2'>
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    <div id='div3'>
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    </div>
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  </div>
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</div>
Tests:
  • contains

     
    const box = document.getElementById('div1')
    const clicked = document.getElementById('div3')
    const isClickInside = box.contains(clicked);
    return isClickInside
  • closest

     
    const box = document.getElementById('div1')
    const clicked = document.getElementById('div3')
    const isClickInside = clicked.closest('#div1');
    return isClickInside