jQuery append vs html vs innerHTML list performance (v221)

Revision 221 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<div id="list" style="display:none">
</div>

Setup

var len = 20;

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Testing in
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jquery .append()
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
  var html = '<div>Test ' + i + '</div>';
  $('#list').append(html);
}
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jQuery .html()
var html = '';
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
  html += '<div>Test ' + i + '</div>';
}

$('#list').html(html);
ready
javascript innerHTML
var list = document.getElementById('list');
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
  list.innerHTML = list.innerHTML + '<div>Test ' + i + '</div>';
}
ready
Concat
var html = '',
  i;

for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
  html += '<div>Test ' + i + '</div>';
}

list.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', html);
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concat 2
 var html = [];
 for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
   html.push('<div>Test ' + i + '</div>');
   
 }
document.getElementById('list').innerHTML = html.join('');
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