replaceChild vs. remove/appendChild

Benchmark created on June 9, 2011

Preparation HTML

<div id="adiv">
  <p id="innerp">p elem</p>
  <span id="innerspan">span elem</span>
</div>
<script>
  function rChild() {
    var oldE = document.getElementById("innerspan");
    var newE = document.createElement("p");
    oldE.parentNode.replaceChild(newE, oldE);
  }
  function raChild() {
    var oldE = document.getElementById("innerspan");
    var newE = document.createElement("p");
    oldE.parentNode.removeChild(oldE);
    oldE.parentNode.appendChild(newE);
  }
</script>

Test runner

rChild();

raChild();

Revisions

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• Revision 1: published on June 9, 2011
• Revision 2: published by cyrilluce on August 2, 2011
• Revision 3: published on February 9, 2013