Run results for: textContent vs innerHtml

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 134

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

innerHtml

226/s

textContent

4/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ innerHtml	226 Ops/sec
textContent	4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id='test'>Change me</div>

Tests:

textContent
let testElem = document.querySelector("#test"); let i = 2_000_000; while (i--) { testElem.textContent = "HAHAHAHAHA<br>BRBRBR</br>" }
innerHtml
let testElem = document.querySelector("#test"); let i = 2_000_000; while (i--) { testElem.innerHtml = "HAHAHAHAHA<br>BRBRBR</br>" }