Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36
Chrome 68
Windows
Desktop
6 years ago
Test name Executions per second
Pure JS .innerText 1359133.5 Ops/sec
Pure JS .innerHTML 185023.7 Ops/sec
Pure JS .textContent 2218253.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .text() 271882.6 Ops/sec
jQuery .html() 109405.1 Ops/sec
jQuery .find().text() 184881.2 Ops/sec
jQuery .find().html() 95582.0 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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1
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"><script>
2
<script>jQuery.noConflict();</script>
3
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/cash/7.0.3/cash.min.js"></script>
4
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>
Tests:
  • Vanilla JS .innerText

     
    var el = document.getElementById("foo");
    el.innerText = "New Hello World";
  • Vanilla JS .innerHTML

     
    var el = document.getElementById("foo");
    el.innerHTML = "New Hello World";
  • Vanilla JS .textContent

     
    var el = document.getElementById("foo");
    el.textContent = "New Hello World";
  • Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerText

     
    var el = document.querySelector("#foo");
    el.innerText = "New Hello World";
  • Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .innerHTML

     
    var el = document.querySelector("#foo");
    el.innerHTML = "New Hello World";
  • Vanilla JS (QuerySelector) .textContent

     
    var el = document.querySelector("#foo");
    el.textContent = "New Hello World";
  • Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerText

     
    var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo");
    el.innerText = "New Hello World";
  • Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .innerHTML

     
    var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo");
    el.innerHTML = "New Hello World";
  • Vanilla JS (QuerySelectorAll) .textContent

     
    var el = document.querySelectorAll("#foo");
    el.textContent = "New Hello World"
  • Cash .text

     
    $("#foo").text("New Hello World");
  • Cash .html

     
    $("#foo").html("New Hello World");
  • jQuery .text()

     
    jQuery("#foo").text("New Hello World");
  • jQuery .html()

     
    jQuery("#foo").html("New Hello World");
  • jQuery .find() .text()

     
    jQuery(document).find("#foo").text("New Hello World");
  • jQuery .find() .html()

     
    jQuery(document).find("#foo").html("New Hello World");