innerHTML vs createElement (Lots of nesting) (v12)

Revision 12 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

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

Setup

document.getElementById('container').innerHTML = '';

Teardown


    document.getElementById('container').innerHTML = '';

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100 element innerHTML
var innerHTMLstr = '<div>';
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
  innerHTMLstr += '<header><section><div><span><a href="http://www.google.com">' + i + '</a></span></div></section></header>';
}
innerHTMLstr+='</div>';

document.getElementById('container').innerHTML = innerHTMLstr;
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100 element createElement added in sequence
var container = document.getElementById('container');
var outerdiv = document.createElement('div');
container.appendChild(outerdiv);

for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
  var header = document.createElement('header');
  var section = document.createElement('section');
  var div = document.createElement('div');
  var span = document.createElement('span');
  var link = document.createElement('a');

  link.innerHTML = i;
  span.appendChild(link);
  div.appendChild(span);
  section.appendChild(div);
  header.appendChild(section);
  outerdiv.appendChild(header);

}
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100 element createElement bulk add
var container = document.getElementById('container');
var outerdiv = document.createElement('div');

for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
   var header = document.createElement('header');
  var section = document.createElement('section');
  var div = document.createElement('div');
  var span = document.createElement('span');
  var link = document.createElement('a');

  link.innerHTML = i;
  span.appendChild(link);
  div.appendChild(span);
  section.appendChild(div);
  header.appendChild(section);
  outerdiv.appendChild(header);

}

container.appendChild(outerdiv);
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