jquery - fastest way to remove all rows from a very large table

Question

I thought this might be a fast way to remove the contents of a very large table  3000 rows     jq  tbody   myTable  remove      But it s taking around five seconds to complete in firefox  Am I doing something dumb  aside from trying to load 3000 rows in to a browser   Is there faster way to do it

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if you want to remove only fast   you can do like below         tableId tbody tr    each  function      this parentNode removeChild  this           but  there can be some event-binded elements in table   in that case    above code is not prevent memory leak in IE    T-T and not fast in FF     sorry

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It s better to avoid any kind of loops  just remove all elements directly like this       mytable  gt  tbody   html

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You could try this     var myTable  document getElementById  myTable    if myTable   null      return  var oTBody   myTable getElementsByTagName  TBODY   0   if oTBody   null      return  try       oTBody innerHTML         catch e        for var i 0  j myTable rows length  i lt j  i            myTable deleteRow 0

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your-table-id   empty      That s as fast as you get

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Using detach is magnitudes faster than any of the other answers here       mytable   find  tbody   detach      Don t forget to put the tbody element back into the table since detach removed it       mytable   append     lt tbody gt          Also note that when talking efficiency   target  find child  syntax is faster than   target  gt  child   Why   Sizzle   Elapsed Time to Empty 3 161 Table Rows   Using the Detach   method   as shown in my example above     Firefox  0 027s Chrome  0 027s Edge  1 73s  IE11  4 02s   Using the empty   method    Firefox  0 055s Chrome  0 052s Edge  137 99s  might as well be frozen   IE11  Freezes and never returns

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Two issues I can see here    The empty   and remove   methods of jQuery actually do quite a bit of work  See John Resig s JavaScript Function Call Profiling for why  The other thing is that for large amounts of tabular data you might consider a datagrid library such as the excellent DataTables to load your data on the fly from the server  increasing the number of network calls  but decreasing the size of those calls  I had a very complicated table with 1500 rows that got quite slow  changing to the new AJAX based table made this same data seem rather fast

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myTable  gt  tbody   empty      It won t touch the headers

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this works for me        1- add class for each row  removeRow       2- in the jQuery       removeRow   remove

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