Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent Retrieval

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Browser: Firefox 129

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

textContent

1.9M/s

innerHtml

1.9M/s

innerText

9K/s

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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--) { let text = el.innerText; }
innerHtml
let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { let text = el.innerHTML; }
textContent
let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { let text = el.textContent; }