Run results for: affectation : innerHTML vs textContent vs Element vs true

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

true

225.9M/s

Element

30.6M/s

textContent

4.6M/s

innerHTML

1.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ true	225,861,136 Ops/sec
Element	30,591,860 Ops/sec
textContent	4,609,290 Ops/sec
innerHTML	1,307,419 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<button id="button">
  <p>This is the text of my Button</p>
  <template>
    <p style="color:red;">This is a template text</p>
    <p>So much things here</p>
  </template>
</button>

Script Preparation code:

var BUTTON = document.querySelector('#button');

Tests:

innerHTML
const a = BUTTON.innerHTML;
textContent
const b = BUTTON.textContent;
Element
const c = BUTTON;
true
const d = true;