Caching jQuery Objects (v12)

Revision 12 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<!--Sample DOM-->
<header>
<h1>Sample DOM</h1>
</header>
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item 2</li>
<li>Item 3</li>
</ul>
</nav>
<div id="main">
  <div id="content">
  <div id="myDiv" class="myClass">
  <p>Sample content of non-consequence</p>
  </div>
  </div>
</div>
<footer>
<a href="#">Terms</a>
</footer>

Test runner

Ready to run.

Testing in
TestOps/sec
No Caching
$("#myDiv").css("color","red");
$("#myDiv").css("opacity",1);
$("#myDiv").css("display","block");
ready
Method Chaining
$("#myDiv").css("color","red").css("opacity",1).css("display","block");
ready
Object Caching
var $myDiv = $("#myDiv");
$myDiv.css("color","red");
$myDiv.css("opacity",1);
$myDiv.css("display","block");
ready
Object Caching + Chaining
var $myDiv = $("#myDiv");
$myDiv.css("color","red").css("opacity",1).css("display","block");
ready
No jQuery
var myDiv = document.getElementById("myDiv");
myDiv.style.color = "red";
myDiv.style.opacity = 1;
myDiv.style.display = "block";
ready
No jQuery (cssText)
var myDiv = document.getElementById("myDiv"),
    styles = ";color:red;opacity:1;display:block;";
myDiv.style.cssText += styles;
ready
normal jquery
$("#myDiv").css({
color:"red",
opacity:1,
display:"block"
});
ready

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