Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent Setting

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.3 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

innerText

7K/s

innerHtml

7K/s

textContent

6K/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--) { el.innerText = "setting"; }
innerHtml
let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { el.innerHTML = "setting"; }
textContent
let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { el.textContent = "setting"; }