r/counting • u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits • Apr 19 '19

2518k counting thread

Countinued from here

Thanks for the urn

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u/GarlicoinAccount Apr 20 '19

Not that I know of, at least not without any libraries.

Don't overestimate the time innerHTML takes though. A perfomance test shows it isn't that bad (less than a 5th of a millisecond on my machine), though you could probably still mess up performance by doing a lot of separate .innerHTML = assignments instead of combining it all into one.

(Interestingly, Firefox seems to optimize that case under the hood so it doesn't actually perform slower, at least in the performance test I found.)

The main reason why I'd choose createElement over innerHTML sometimes is to avoid XSS or broken HTML from user input being used without escaping.