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createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs innerHTML
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0.1 Safari/605.1.15
Browser:
Safari 18
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
textContent
9.3M/s
innerText
8.7M/s
innerHTML
6.2M/s
createTextNode
2K/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
textContent
9,271,189 Ops/sec
innerText
8,676,352 Ops/sec
innerHTML
6,152,334 Ops/sec
createTextNode
2,370 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var a = document.createElement('a');
Tests:
createTextNode
a.appendChild(document.createTextNode('text'));
textContent
a.textContent = 'text';
innerText
a.innerText = 'text';
innerHTML
a.innerHTML = 'text';