Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 122

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

innerHtml

459K/s

innerText

2K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ innerHtml	458,533 Ops/sec
innerText	1,799 Ops/sec

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!" }