Run results for: innerHTML vs textContent v2

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0

Browser: Firefox 130

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

textContent

4.5M/s

innerHTML

4.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ textContent	4,450,476 Ops/sec
innerHTML	4,413,014 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const targetElem = document.createElement('DIV');
targetElem.id = 'target';

targetElem.innerHTML = `
	<div>
		<span>Child 1</span>
	</div>
	<div>
		<span>Child 2</span>
	</div>
	<div>
		<span>Child 3</span>
	</div>
`;

document.body.appendChild(targetElem);

Tests:

innerHTML
document.getElementById('target').innerHTML = '';
textContent
document.getElementById('target').textContent = '';