Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent1231232

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

innerHtml

1.7M/s

textContent

689K/s

innerText

166K/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<span id='hello'>Hello, World!</span>

Tests:

textContent
let i = 10; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { el.textContent = "Goodbye"; }
innerHtml
let i = 10; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { el.innerHtml = "Goodbye"; }
innerText
let i = 10; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { el.innerText = "Goodbye"; }