Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:131.0) Gecko/131.0 Firefox/131.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 131

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

innerHtml

623K/s

innerText

489/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ innerHtml	622,916 Ops/sec
innerText	489 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!" }