Benchmark: innerText vs textContent + trim

Script Preparation code:

var a = document.createElement('a');
a.textContent = "Text";

Tests:

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
textContent
innerText

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 6 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 117 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
textContent	7248478.0 Ops/sec
innerText	6790013.0 Ops/sec

innerText vs textContent + trim (version: 0)