Run results for: JQuery: find vs id selector

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/96.0

Browser: Firefox 96

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
find with tag selector	501475.6 Ops/sec
find with id	1845327.4 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