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

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
Chrome Mobile 130
Android
Mobile
6 months ago
Test name Executions per second
innerHTML 3130504.8 Ops/sec
removeChild 5139754.5 Ops/sec
remove 5131358.0 Ops/sec
innerText 3158848.0 Ops/sec
textContent 2130155.2 Ops/sec
replaceChildren 2141319.8 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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<div id="container"></div>
Script Preparation code:
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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 = '';

  • replaceChildren

     
    var node = document.getElementById('container');
    node.replaceChildren()