Run results for: td removal best way

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 116

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
using textContent	174450.5 Ops/sec
using removeChild	246910.6 Ops/sec
using remove	248225.5 Ops/sec
using innerHtml	11539.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<table id="table"></table>

Script Preparation code:

for (let i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
    let tr = document.createElement("TR");
    for (let j = 0; j < 300; j++) {
        tr.appendChild(document.createElement("TD"))
    }
    document.querySelector("table").appendChild(tr);
}

Tests:

using textContent
var nodeTr = document.querySelectorAll('#table tr'); for(let i=0;i<nodeTr.length;i++){ nodeTr[i].textContent=""; }
using removeChild
var nodeTr = document.querySelectorAll('#table tr'); for(let i=0;i<nodeTr.length;i++){ while(nodeTr[i].firstChild) {nodeTr[i].removeChild(nodeTr[i].firstChild)} }
using remove
var nodeTr = document.querySelectorAll('#table tr'); for(let i=0;i<nodeTr.length;i++){ while(nodeTr[i].firstChild) {nodeTr[i].firstChild.remove()} }
using innerHtml
var nodeTr = document.querySelectorAll('#table tr'); for(let i=0;i<nodeTr.length;i++){ nodeTr[i].innerHTML=""; }

Run results for: td removal best way

using textContent

using removeChild

using remove

using innerHtml