Run results for: DIV.innerHTML vs TEXTAREA.value

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 136

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

TEXTAREA

361/s

DIV

178/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ TEXTAREA	361 Ops/sec
DIV	178 Ops/sec

Tests:

DIV
const el = document.createElement('div'); for (var i = 0; i < 999; i++) { el.innerHTML += i }
TEXTAREA
const el = document.createElement('textarea'); for (var i = 0; i < 999; i++) { el.value += i }