Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

Browser: Firefox 72

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 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)
smarter while
var node = document.getElementById('container'); try { while(node.removeChild(node.firstChild)) {} } catch(e) {}