Benchmark: innerhtml vs removechild(firstChild) vs removechild(lastChild) vs innerText vs range()

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');
for(var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

Tests:

innerHTML
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerHTML = '';
removeChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
removeChild backwards
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.lastChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)
innerText
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerText = '';
range
const rng = document.createRange(); rng.selectNodeContents(document.getElementById('container')); rng.deleteContents();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

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Run details: (Test run date: 10 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 114 on Windows

innerhtml vs removechild(firstChild) vs removechild(lastChild) vs innerText vs range() (version: 0)