Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/130.0.6723.90 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 130

Operating system: iOS 17.3

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

innerHtml

775K/s

innerText

1K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ innerHtml	774,815 Ops/sec
innerText	1,306 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!" }

Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent

blah blah

innerText

innerHtml