Run results for: innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 12; Mobile; rv:128.0) Gecko/128.0 Firefox/128.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 128

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 4 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerText	112.7 Ops/sec
innerHtml	180104.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<div id='hello'>Hello, World!</div>

Script Preparation code:

let el = document.querySelector("#hello");

Tests:

innerText
let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { el.innerText = "Goodbye, cruel world!" }
innerHtml
let i = 1000; let el = document.querySelector("#hello"); while (i--) { el.innerHtml = "Goodbye, cruel world!" }