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Comparison: innerHTML vs removeChild() vs remove()

innerhtml-vs-removechild-vs-remove

Comparison: innerHTML vs removeChild() vs remove()

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Test results

Code below is execute 100_000 times.

innerHTML:

$element.innerHTML = '';

removeChild():

while ($element.firstElementChild) {
  $element.removeChild($element.firstElementChild);
}

remove():

while ($element.firstElementChild) {
  $element.firstElementChild.remove();
}

Results:

[Element exists in DOM: innerHTML] 20 ms
[Element exists in DOM: removeChild()] 49 ms
[Element exists in DOM: remove()] 31 ms
[Element does not exists in DOM: innerHTML] 11 ms
[Element does not exists in DOM: removeChild()] 1 ms
[Element does not exists in DOM: remove()] 2 ms

License

The MIT License @ 2022