Benchmark: inject styles - MeasureThat.net

Script Preparation code:

window.cssReset = `
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,
article, aside, canvas, details, embed, 
figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, 
menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary,
time, mark, audio, video {
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
 border: 0;
 font-size: 100%;
 font: inherit;
 vertical-align: baseline;
}
/* HTML5 display-role reset for older browsers */
article, aside, details, figcaption, figure, 
footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section {
 display: block;
}
body {
 line-height: 1;
}
ol, ul {
 list-style: none;
}
blockquote, q {
 quotes: none;
}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
q:before, q:after {
 content: '';
 content: none;
}
table {
 border-collapse: collapse;
 border-spacing: 0;
}
`

Tests:

innerHTML
const styles = document.createElement('style') styles.innerHTML = `${window.cssReset} body {overflow: hidden;}` document.head.appendChild(styles)
createTextNode
const styles = document.createElement('style') styles.appendChild(document.createTextNode(`${window.cssReset} body {overflow: hidden;}`)) document.head.appendChild(styles)
textContent
const styles = document.createElement('style') styles.textContent = `${window.cssReset} body {overflow: hidden;}` document.head.appendChild(styles)

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
innerHTML
createTextNode
textContent

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 93 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	63159.7 Ops/sec
createTextNode	85447.6 Ops/sec
textContent	53718.4 Ops/sec

inject styles (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: innerHTML vs createTextNode vs textContent

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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innerHTML

createTextNode

textContent

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A