Run results for: jQuery vs Vanilla JS SetText Speed Test (not slim)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/123.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 123

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Pure JS .textContent

4.0M/s

Pure JS .innerText

1.9M/s

Pure JS .innerHTML

1.2M/s

jQuery .text()

795K/s

jQuery .find().text()

579K/s

jQuery .html()

568K/s

jQuery .find().html()

448K/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>

Tests:

Pure JS .innerText
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); el.innerText = "New Hello World";
Pure JS .innerHTML
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); el.innerHTML = "New Hello World";
Pure JS .textContent
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); el.textContent = "New Hello World";
jQuery .text()
$("#foo").text("New Hello World");
jQuery .html()
$("#foo").html("New Hello World");
jQuery .find().text()
$(document).find("#foo").text("New Hello World");
jQuery .find().html()
$(document).find("#foo").html("New Hello World");