Creating complex elements (v3)

Revision 3 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

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

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Passing full html string to jQuery
var elements = "<div><table><tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr></table></div>";
$("body").append($(elements));
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Create elements by hand but still using jQuery
function create() {
  return $("<div>").append($("<table>").append('tr').append('td'));
}
$("body").append(create());
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Using innerHTML
var elements = "<div><table><tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr></table></div>";
var div = document.createElement('div')
div.id = 'mycustomdiv'
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(div);
div.innerHTML = elements;
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Using innerHTML reverted
var elements = "<div><table><tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr></table></div>";
var div = document.createElement('div')
div.id = 'mycustomdiv'
div.innerHTML = elements;
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(div);
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