div vs iframe

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Preparation HTML

<div id="content" style="display: none">
</div>
<script>
  var content = document.getElementById('content');
</script>

Setup

content.innerText = '';

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div
for (var i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
  var el = document.createElement('div');
  content.appendChild(el);
}
ready
iframe
for (var i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
  var el = document.createElement('iframe');
  content.appendChild(el);
}
ready

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