We are always looking for new ways to improve the speed and performance of Elementor websites.
This has been a long time coming. Lately, we have been receiving feedback from our users about the large number of wrapper elements we include in the HTML output of the website builder. The feedback stated that many of the wrappers are not necessary, and they increase the size of web pages and harm performance.
The presence of these wrappers is due to the diverse use of Elementor, the ability to use these selectors in various ways to customize your site, and the omni-purpose of Elementor as a solution for creating advanced websites visually.
Removing wrapper elements from the DOM contributes to more simplified code output, better readability and less complexity. A smaller DOM contributes to increases in speed and performance.
** Warning: Breaking Changes **
We have wanted to address this issue for a while now, and Elementor 3.0 provided us with the perfect opportunity to do so. Elementor 3.0 will bring many changes to the way our users build websites with Elementor, and some of these changes, including the removal of several HTML wrappers from our code, are potentially breaking. This means that when you update the Elementor version in your website from 2.x (or even 1.x, for some very out of date sites) to Elementor 3.x, your website’s appearance and/or functionality could break.
Interested in the changes coming down the road? Read more here
The Wrappers Being Removed
Without further ado, here are the classes of the wrappers being removed from Elementor in Elementor 3.0:
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