Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_3_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.3.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/14G60

Browser: Mobile Safari 10

Operating system: iOS 10.3.3

Device Platform: iPhone

Date tested: 7 years ago

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)
create range
var node = document.getElementById('container'); var r = document.createRange(); r.selectNodeContents(node); r.deleteContents();