Run results for: Remove all children from DOM element with lastChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_2_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.2.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 10 months ago

HTML Preparation code:

<div id='messages'></div>

Script Preparation code:

let list = document.getElementById("messages");
for(i=0; i<1000; i++) {
	list.innerHTML += "<span>Text</span>"
}

Tests:

Remove firstChild
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); while (list.firstChild) { list.removeChild(list.firstChild); }
Remove lastChild
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); var last; while (last = list.lastChild) list.removeChild(last);
innerHTML
document.getElementById("messages").innerHTML = "";
innerText
document.getElementById("messages").innerText = "";
textContent
document.getElementById("messages").textContent = "";
firstChild.remove
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); while (list.firstChild) { list.firstChild.remove() }
range
var range = new Range(); range.selectNodeContents(document.getElementById("messages")); range.deleteContents();