Run results for: perf innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.84 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 99

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

innerHtml

4K/s

textContent

786/s

innerText

729/s

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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!" + Math.random(); }
innerHtml
let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { el.innerHtml = "Goodbye, cruel world!" + Math.random(); }
textContent
let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { el.textContent = "Goodbye, cruel world!" + Math.random(); }