jQuery parent() vs closest() speed performance comparison
Date tested:
one year ago
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Test name
Executions per second
Parent
290586.0 Ops/sec
Closest
260791.3 Ops/sec
Benchmark definition (click to collapse):
HTML Preparation code:
<ul> <li class="current">1</li> <li>2</li> <li>3</li> </ul> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
Script Preparation code:
item = $('.current');
Tests:
Parent
console.log(item.parent());
Closest
console.log(item.closest('ul'));
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