Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent Retrieval

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

textContent

19K/s

innerHtml

14K/s

innerText

1K/s

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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--) { let text = el.innerText; }
innerHtml
let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { let text = el.innerHTML; }
textContent
let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { let text = el.textContent; }