Run results for: Performance when getting innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 134

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

innerHtml

1.4M/s

textContent

188K/s

innerText

8K/s

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HTML Preparation code:


<div id='hello'>Hello, World!</div>

Script Preparation code:

let el = document.querySelector("#hello");
for(let i=0;i<10;i++) {
  el.innerText = el.innerText + el.innerText;
}

Tests:

innerText
let i = 100; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); let thing = ''; while (i--) { thing += el.innerText; }
innerHtml
let i = 100; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); let thing = ''; while (i--) { thing += el.innerHtml; }
textContent
let i = 100; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); let thing = ''; while (i--) { thing += el.textContent; }