Replacing all children of an HTMLElement?

Question

In my code, I fairly frequently need to replace all children of a certain HTML container with a new list of children.

What is the fastest way to do this? My current appr

Answer 1

If you simply want to replace all children, regarding of the type, why don't you just set its content to '' and then add your code:

container.innerHTML = '';
container.appendChild( newContainerElements );

that would basically remove all the children in the fastest possible way :)