Document fragment vs innerHTML vs looped appendChild (v9)

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Preparation HTML

<div id="my-svg">
</div>

Setup

var div = document.getElementById('my-svg')
  var svgNS="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
  var elmSvg = document.createElementNS(svgNS,"svg");

Teardown



            while(elmSvg.firstChild)elmSvg.removeChild(elmSvg.firstChild);
  while(div.firstChild)div.removeChild(div.firstChild);

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innerHTML
var i = 0;
var htmlText = '';
while (i < 20) {
  htmlText += '<rect> </rect>';
  i++;
}
elmSvg.innerHTML = htmlText ;
div.appendChild(elmSvg);
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Looped appendChild
var i = 0;

while (i < 20) {
  var el = document.createElementNS(svgNS,'rect');
  elmSvg.appendChild(el);
  i++;
}

div.appendChild(elmSvg);
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Document fragment
var i = 0,
  fragment = document.createDocumentFragment();

while (i < 20) {
  var el = document.createElementNS(svgNS,'rect');
  fragment.appendChild(el);
  i++;
}

elmSvg.appendChild(fragment);
div.appendChild(elmSvg);
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