Run results for: JQuery: find vs id selector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0

Browser: Firefox 94

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
find with tag selector	1287002.1 Ops/sec
find with id	4686538.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<a id="parent" >
  <span id="child">Need span</span>
  <svg class="icon md-16 icon-shevron-right text-muted"></svg>
</a>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var $element = $("#parent");

Tests:

find with tag selector
$element.find("span");
find with id
$("#child");

Run results for: JQuery: find vs id selector

Test which solution find quicker element

find with tag selector

find with id