innerHTML vs createElement test (v60)

Revision 60 of this benchmark created on

Description

add Array.join()

Preparation HTML

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

Setup

document.getElementById('container').innerHTML = '';
    
    function outerHTML(node){
        return node.outerHTML || new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(node);
    }

Teardown


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

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100 element innerHTML
var innerHTMLstr = '<div>';
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
  innerHTMLstr += '<div><span>' + i + '</span></div>';
}
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 div = document.createElement('div');
  var span = document.createElement('span');

  span.innerHTML = i;
  div.appendChild(span);
  outerdiv.appendChild(div);

}
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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 div = document.createElement('div');
  var span = document.createElement('span');

  span.innerHTML = i;
  div.appendChild(span);
  outerdiv.appendChild(div);

}

container.appendChild(outerdiv);
 
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100 element innerHTML with Array.join()
var innerHTMLarray = [ '<div>' ];
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
  innerHTMLarray[innerHTMLarray.length] = '<div><span>';
  innerHTMLarray[innerHTMLarray.length] = i;
  innerHTMLarray[innerHTMLarray.length] = '</span></div>';
}
innerHTMLarray[innerHTMLarray.length] = '</div>';

document.getElementById('container').innerHTML = innerHTMLarray.join('');
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100 element innerHTML with Array.join() and Array.push()
var innerHTMLarray = [ '<div>' ];
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
  innerHTMLarray.push('<div><span>', i, '</span></div>');
}
innerHTMLarray.push('</div>');

document.getElementById('container').innerHTML = innerHTMLarray.join('');
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100 element createElement + innerHTML + outerHTML
var container = document.getElementById('container');

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

  span.innerHTML = i;
  div.appendChild(span);
  container.innerHTML += outerHTML(div);

}

 
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100 element bulk createElement + innerHTML + outerHTML
var container = document.getElementById('container');
var outerdiv = document.createElement('div');


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

  span.innerHTML = i;
  div.appendChild(span);
  outerdiv.appendChild(div);

}

container.innerHTML = outerHTML(outerdiv);
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100x insertAdjacentHTML
var i = -1, div = document.createElement('div'), html='<div>';

while (++i < 100) {
    html += '<div><span>' + i + '</span></div>';
}

html += '</div>';

document.getElementById('container').insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin', html);
 
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