Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0

Browser: Firefox 137

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

innerHtml

716K/s

innerText

2K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ innerHtml	716,162 Ops/sec
innerText	1,664 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!" }