jQuery append vs html vs innerHTML list performance (v60)

Revision 60 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-git2.js"></script>

<div id="list" style="display:none"></div>

Setup

var len = 20;

Teardown



            $("#list").empty();

Test runner

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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);
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javascript innerHTML
var list = document.getElementById('list');
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
  list.innerHTML = list.innerHTML + '<div>Test ' + i + '</div>';
}
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Concat
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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clone nodes
var node = document.createElement("div");
var el = document.getElementById('list');
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
  var clone = node.cloneNode(false);
  clone.textContent = i;
  el.appendChild(clone);
}
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