Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 133

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

innerHtml

327K/s

innerText

88/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ innerHtml	327,289 Ops/sec
innerText	88 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!" }