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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_7_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 14

Operating system: iOS 14.7.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	2849509.8 Ops/sec
removeChild	9565142.0 Ops/sec
remove	8523411.0 Ops/sec
innerText	8958683.0 Ops/sec
textContent	7972751.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

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 = '';

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

innerHTML

removeChild

remove

innerText

textContent