Run results for: innerHTML vs textContent

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 15

Operating system: iOS 15.5

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

innerHtml

1.3M/s

textContent

12K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ innerHtml	1,272,248 Ops/sec
textContent	12,113 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests:

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