Fastest method of clearing all children from a DOM element (v503)

Revision 503 of this benchmark created by K. Adam Christensen on


Preparation HTML

<div id='box'></div>

Setup

var box = document.getElementById('box');
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Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
range
var rangeObj = new Range();
rangeObj.selectNodeContents(box);
rangeObj.deleteContents();
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Inner HTML
box.innerHTML = '';
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slice 1
var child, children = Array.prototype.slice.call(box.childNodes);
while ((child = children.pop())) box.removeChild(child);
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length
var n = box.childNodes.length;
while (n--) {
  box.removeChild(box.lastChild);
}
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slice 2
var children = Array.prototype.slice.call(box.childNodes);
var n = children.length;
while (n--) box.removeChild(children[n]);
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removeChild(box.firstChild)
var child;
while ((child = box.firstChild)) {
  box.removeChild(child);
}
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Clone Node
var cBox = box.cloneNode(false);
box.parentNode.replaceChild(cBox, box);
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removeChild(box.lastChild)
var child;
while ((child = box.lastChild)) {
  box.removeChild(child);
}
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