Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0

Browser: Firefox 122

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

innerHtml

686K/s

innerText

812/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ innerHtml	686,106 Ops/sec
innerText	812 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

let el = document.querySelector("#hello");

Tests:

innerText
let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { el.innerText = "Goodbye, cruel world!" }
innerHtml
let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { el.innerHtml = "Goodbye, cruel world!" }