Info

This is to test if appending a giant string using $().html() is faster than creating the nodes manually.

Preparation code

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<ol id="list">
</ol>

Preparation code output

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var html = "";
for (i = 0; i <= 2000; i++) {
  html += "<li><a href='#'>Hi</a></li>";
}
$("#list").html(html);

var list = document.getElementById("list");
var anchor;
var listElement;
for (var i = 0; i <= 2000; i++) {
  listElement = document.createElement("li");
  anchor = document.createElement("a");
  anchor.innerHTML = "Hi";
  anchor.href = "#";
  listElement.appendChild(anchor);
  list.appendChild(listElement);
}

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Revisions

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• Revision 1: published by nwellcome on 17th August 2011
• Revision 2: published by Matt Ball on 17th August 2011
• Revision 3: published by nwellcome on 17th August 2011
• Revision 4: published on 21st January 2013
• Revision 5: published on 21st January 2013

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