Run results for: innerText vs. textContent writing

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerText	534310.6 Ops/sec
textContent	1718169.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<style>
  .headline {
    width: 100%;
    color: #c0ffee;
    font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 2rem;
    font-width: 700;
    line-height: 1.5;
  	text-align: center;
  }
</style>
<h1 id="testSubject" class="headline">this is a test</h1>

Script Preparation code:

const testSubject = document.getElementById("#testSubject");

Tests:

innerText
testSubject.innerText = "that is another test";
textContent
testSubject.textContent = "that is another test";

Run results for: innerText vs. textContent writing

testing writing an elements text with innerText vs. textContent

innerText

textContent