Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs compare innerHTML vs compare innerText

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

Browser: Firefox 123

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

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!" }
innerText with Compare
let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { if (el.innerHtml != "Goodbye, cruel world!") { el.innerHtml = "Goodbye, cruel world!" } }
innerHtml with Compare
var g_DOMParser = new DOMParser(); function decodeHTMLSymbols(htmlText) { return g_DOMParser.parseFromString(htmlText, "text/html").documentElement.textContent; } let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { if (el.innerHTML != decodeHTMLSymbols("Goodbye, cruel world!")) { el.innerHtml = "Goodbye, cruel world!" } }