jQuery.html() vs jQuery.text() vs el.innerHTML vs el.innerText

JavaScript performance comparison

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Testing DOM vs native element content with retrieving text if extra html exists or not

Preparation code

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div id="html"><div>this </div><span>is <div>the </div></span>content</div>
<div id="html2"><label>this is the content</label></div>
<div id="text">this is the content</div>
<div id="innerText">this is the content</div>
<div id="innerHTML"><div>this </div><span>is <div>the </div></span> content</div>

Preparation code output

this
is
the
content
this is the content
this is the content
this
is
the
content

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Test Ops/sec
jQuery HTML multiple
 
// async test
var o=$("#html");
for (var i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
  test = o.text();
}
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jQuery Text
 
var o=$("#text");
for (var i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
  test = o.text();
}
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el.innerText
 
var o=$("#innerText").get(0);
for (var i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
  test = o.innerText;
}
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el.innerHTML
 
var o=$("#innerHTML").get(0);
for (var i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
  test = o.innerText;
}
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jQuery HTML selecting inner
 
var o=$("#html2");
for (var i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
  test = o.find('label').text();
}
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jQuery HTML simple
 
var o=$("#html2");
for (var i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
  test = o.text();
}
 pending…

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