Run results for: textContent vs nodeValue vs data - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Browser: Firefox 115

Operating system: Windows 8.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 9 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
element.textContent	55835.6 Ops/sec
node.textContent	752186.4 Ops/sec
node.nodeValue	703946.9 Ops/sec
node.data	735235.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="el"> </div>

Script Preparation code:

var a = document.querySelector('#el');

Tests:

element.textContent
a.textContent = Math.random();
node.textContent
a.firstChild.textContent = Math.random();
node.nodeValue
a.firstChild.nodeValue = Math.random();
node.data
a.firstChild.data = Math.random();

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