Benchmark: JQuery: text vs html

HTML Preparation code:

<span id="text"></span>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var $element = $("#text");

Tests:

html
$element.html("hello");
text
$element.text("hello");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
html
text

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 126 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
html	181635.9 Ops/sec
text	376236.6 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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Let's break down the JavaScript microbenchmark on MeasureThat.net and explain what's being tested.

**Benchmark Definition**

The benchmark is designed to compare the performance of two approaches for adding text to an HTML element:

1. `text` method: Using jQuery's `text()` method to set the text content of an element.
2. `html` method: Using jQuery's `html()` method to set the inner HTML of an element.

**Options Compared**

The benchmark is comparing the execution speed of these two approaches for adding text to an element. This is a simple yet relevant test case that can help identify performance differences between these two methods.

**Pros and Cons**

1. **`text()` method**:
	* Pros: Often faster, as it only sets the text content without creating or modifying any HTML structure.
	* Cons: May not work correctly if the element's HTML structure is complex or needs to be updated simultaneously with its text content.
2. **`html()` method**:
	* Pros: Can be more flexible and robust, especially when dealing with complex HTML structures or dynamic updates.
	* Cons: Generally slower than `text()`, as it involves creating or modifying the element's HTML structure.

**Library and Purpose**

The benchmark uses jQuery (version 3.4.1), a popular JavaScript library for DOM manipulation, event handling, and other tasks.

In this case, jQuery's `text()` method sets only the text content of an element without any additional HTML tags. The `html()` method, on the other hand, can set the entire inner HTML of an element, including its structure.

**Special JS Feature or Syntax**

There is no special JavaScript feature or syntax being used in this benchmark. It's a straightforward comparison of two common jQuery methods for setting text content.

**Other Considerations**

* The benchmark assumes that the element being tested (`#text`) has already been created and loaded into the DOM.
* The test cases use the `$(document).ready()` callback function to ensure that the elements are available before running the benchmarks.
* The benchmark uses a simple, repetitive pattern for setting text content, which can help isolate the performance differences between the two methods.

**Alternative Approaches**

Other approaches for adding text to an element might include:

1. Using the `innerText` property (if supported by the browser).
2. Creating and manipulating HTML elements using the DOM API.
3. Using a library or framework that provides optimized text-setting functionality (e.g., React's `setTextContent()` method).

Keep in mind that these alternatives may have different performance characteristics, and this benchmark is designed to compare specific scenarios using jQuery's `text()` and `html()` methods.

Related benchmarks:

JQuery: text vs html (version: 0)

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Comparing performance of: html vs text

Created: 5 years ago by: Guest

Jump to the latest result

html

text

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):