jQuery -- .html() vs. .text() vs. innerHTML vs. innerText/textContent with jQuery 2.0.3 (v7)

Revision 7 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.0.min.js">
</script>
<div class="test-element">
</div>
<div class="test-element">
</div>
<div class="test-element">
</div>
<div class="test-element">
</div>
<div class="test-element">
</div>

Setup

var plainText = '<label>one & two</label>',
      encodedText = $('<div></div>').text(plainText).html();
  
  $('.test-element').empty();
  
  var $els = $('.test-element');

Teardown



            $('.test-element').empty();

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
jQuery .html()
$els.html(encodedText);
ready
jQuery .text()
$els.text(plainText);
ready
innerHTML
for (var i = 0, l = $els.length; i < l; i++) {
  $els[i].innerHTML = encodedText;
}
ready
innerText
for (var i = 0, l = $els.length; i < l; i++) {
  $els[i].innerText = plainText; // IE
}
ready
document.createTextNode
var    textNode;

for (var i = 0, l = $els.length; i < l; i++) {
  textNode = document.createTextNode(plainText);
  $els[i].appendChild(textNode);
}
ready
document.createTextNode (cached)
var    textNode = document.createTextNode(plainText);

for (var i = 0, l = $els.length; i < l; i++) {
  $els[i].appendChild(textNode.cloneNode());
}
ready
textContent
for (var i = 0, l = $els.length; i < l; i++) {
  $els[i].textContent = plainText; // W3C
}
ready

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