Run results for: CSS selector best performance

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 124

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 13 days ago

Test name	Executions per second
case-1	884757.1 Ops/sec
case-2	925009.4 Ops/sec
case-3	932833.6 Ops/sec
case-4	931437.1 Ops/sec
case-5	925358.5 Ops/sec
case-6	948863.4 Ops/sec
case-7	964665.5 Ops/sec
case-8	981012.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="my-id">
    <div class="grand">
        <div class="my-class">
            <p> I like carrots! </p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

case-1
$(' div#my-id div.grand div.my-class ').css("background-color", "#cccccc");
case-2
$(' #my-id .grand div.my-class ').css("background-color", "#cccccc");
case-3
$(' #my-id .grand .my-class ').css("background-color", "#cccccc");
case-4
$(' div#my-id div.my-class ').css("background-color", "#cccccc");
case-5
$(' #my-id div.my-class ').css("background-color", "#cccccc");
case-6
$(' #my-id .my-class ').css("background-color", "#cccccc");
case-7
$(' div.my-class ').css("background-color", "#cccccc");
case-8
$(' .my-class ').css("background-color", "#cccccc");

Run results for: CSS selector best performance

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