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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 102

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

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 = '';