Run results for: jQuery .html() vs Element.innerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 55

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery: get html	71014.9 Ops/sec
get innerHTML	77108.4 Ops/sec
jQuery: set html	67315.2 Ops/sec
set innerHTML	137990.3 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<ul id="theList">
  <li class="odd">Item 1</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 2</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 3</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 4</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 5</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 6</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 7</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 8</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 9</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 10</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 11</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 12</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 13</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 14</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 15</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 16</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 17</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 18</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 19</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 20</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 21</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 22</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 23</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 24</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 25</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 26</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 27</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 28</li>    
  <li class="odd">Item 29</li>    
  <li class="even">Item 30</li>    
</ul>

Script Preparation code:

var el = document.getElementById('theList');

Tests:

jQuery: get html
var html = $(el).html();
get innerHTML
var html = el.innerHTML;
jQuery: set html
$(el).html('<li>Item A</li><li>Item B</li>');
set innerHTML
el.innerHTML = '<li>Item A</li><li>Item B</li>';

Run results for: jQuery .html() vs Element.innerHTML

jQuery: get html

get innerHTML

jQuery: set html

set innerHTML