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Run results for: insertAdjacentHtml vs createContextualFragment

insertAdjacentHtml vs innerHTML

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 125
Linux
Desktop
8 months ago
Test name Executions per second
using range 6769.2 Ops/sec
using insertAdjacentHTML 6662.4 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
​x
 
const targetElem = document.createElement( 'DIV' );
targetElem.id = 'target';
​
targetElem.innerHTML = `
    <div>
        <span>Child 1</span>
    </div>
    <div>
        <span>Child 2</span>
    </div>
    <div>
        <span>Child 3</span>
    </div>
`;
​
document.body.appendChild( targetElem );
Tests:

  • using range

     
    const range = new Range();
    const frag = range.createContextualFragment("<h1>Some header</h1>")
    document.getElementById("target").appendChild(frag);

  • using insertAdjacentHTML

     
    document.getElementById("target").insertAdjacentHTML("afterbegin", "<h1>Some content</h1>")