Simple InnerHTML vs DOM

Benchmark created on September 2, 2011

Preparation HTML

<div id="innerhtmlvsdomdiv" style="display: none;"></div>
<script>
  div = document.getElementById('innerhtmlvsdomdiv');
  
  function innerhtmlfunction() {
    div.innerHTML += '<div>lol</div>';
  }
  
  function domfunction() {
    newDiv = document.createElement('div');
    newDiv.innerHTML = 'lol';
    div.appendChild(newDiv);
  }
</script>

Teardown

    document.getElementById('innerhtmlvsdomdiv').innerHTML = '';
  

Test runner

innerhtmlfunction();

domfunction();

Revisions

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• Revision 1: published on September 2, 2011