innerHTML vs createElement test (v41)

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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 container = document.getElementById('container');


for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
  var div = document.createElement('div');

  div.innerHTML = '<div><span>' + i + '</span></div>';
  container.appendChild(div);
}


 
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100 element deep cloneNode bulk add
var container = document.getElementById('container');
var outerdiv = document.createDocumentFragment();
var protodiv = document.createDocumentFragment();
var protospan2 = document.createElement('div');
var protospan3 = document.createElement('div');
var protospan = document.createElement('span');
protospan2.appendChild(protospan);
protospan3.appendChild(protospan2);
protodiv.appendChild(protospan3);


for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
  var div = protodiv.cloneNode(true);

  div.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].innerHTML = i;
  container.appendChild(div);

}

 
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100 element create fragment
var container = document.getElementById('container');
var outerdiv = document.createDocumentFragment();



for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
  var protodiv = document.createDocumentFragment();
var protospan2 = document.createElement('div');
var protospan3 = document.createElement('div');
var protospan = document.createElement('span');
protospan2.appendChild(protospan);
protospan3.appendChild(protospan2);
protodiv.appendChild(protospan3);
  protospan.innerHTML = i;
  container.appendChild(protodiv);

}

 
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100 element create
var container = document.getElementById('container');
var outerdiv = document.createDocumentFragment();



for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
var protospan2 = document.createElement('div');
var protospan3 = document.createElement('div');
var protospan = document.createElement('span');
protospan2.appendChild(protospan);
protospan3.appendChild(protospan2);
  protospan.innerHTML = i;
  container.appendChild(protospan3);

}
 
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