jQuery Selectors (v2)

Revision 2 of this benchmark created on October 6, 2012

Description

Preparation HTML

<div class="brand" id="brand">
    <ul>
      <li id="first" class="first">one</li>
      <li>two</li>
      <li>three</li>
      <li id="last" class="last">four</li>
    </ul>
  </div>
    
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Test runner

$('#first');

document.querySelector('#first');

$('li#first');

document.querySelector('li#first');

$('li:first');

document.querySelector('li:first')

$('div ul li.first');

document.querySelector('div ul li.first')

$('div#brand ul li#first');

document.querySelector('div#brand ul li#first') 

$('div#brand ul li:first');

document.querySelector('div#brand ul li:first') 

$('div#brand>ul>li.first');

document.querySelector('div#brand>ul>li.first') 

Revisions

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• Revision 2: published on October 6, 2012