innerHTML vs innerText vs nodeValue vs textContent (v41)

Revision 41 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<div id="d"></div>
<span id="s"></span>
<script>
  var p = document.querySelector('p.meta'); // Any visible element on that page that contains some text.
  var d = document.getElementById("d");
  var s = document.getElementById("s");
  var t = "abcd1234";
  console.log(p,d,s,t);
</script>

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Testing in
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innerText - div
d.innerText = t;
ready
innerText - span
s.innerText = t;
ready
innerHTML - div
d.innerHTML = t;
ready
innerHTML - span
s.innerHTML = t;
ready
childNodes[0].nodeValue - div
d.childNodes[0].nodeValue = t;
ready
childNodes[0].nodeValue - span
s.childNodes[0].nodeValue = t;
ready
firstChild.nodeValue - div
d.firstChild.nodeValue = t;
ready
firstChild.nodeValue - span
s.firstChild.nodeValue = t
ready
textContent - div
d.textContent = t;
ready
textContent - span
s.textContent = t;
ready
textContent - visible p
p.textContent = t;
ready
innerText - visible p
p.innerText = t;
ready

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