Run results for: JQuery: text vs html

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 119

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

text

1.4M/s

html

893K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ text	1,355,605 Ops/sec
html	893,217 Ops/sec

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: