Run results for: Is in DOM

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0(compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)

Browser: IE 9

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
isInDOM1	148499.8 Ops/sec
isInDOM2	447006.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="test-div"></div>

Script Preparation code:

function isInDOM1(oHTMLElement) {                                   
  if (oHTMLElement === document.body || oHTMLElement === document ) {
    return true;
  } else {
    try {
      return document.body.contains(oHTMLElement);
    } catch(ex) {
      // Sometimes in Firefox element is anonymous div around input.
      // Throws error "TypeError: Argument 1 of Node.contains does not implement interface Node"
      // See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208427
      return false;
    }
  }
}

function isInDOM2(oHTMLElement) {                                   
  var root = oHTMLElement.ownerDocument; 
  if (!root) { return false; }
  
  if ( oHTMLElement.ownerDocument.documentElement === document.documentElement ){ return true; }

  return false;
}

var div = document.getElementById('test-div');

Tests:

isInDOM1
isInDOM1(div);
isInDOM2
isInDOM2(div);

Check if given element is in dom

isInDOM1

isInDOM2