Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent P3

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

textContent

466/s

innerText

148/s

innerHTML

93/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<div id='el'>Hello, World!</div>

Tests:

innerHTML
let i = 1000; while (i--) { el.innerHTML = "Goodbye, cruel world!" }
innerText
let i = 1000; while (i--) { el.innerText = "Goodbye, cruel world!" }
textContent
let i = 1000; while (i--) { el.textContent = "Goodbye, cruel world!" }