Benchmark: CSS Variable swaps - style.setProperty vs style.cssText vs style vs Object.assign vs setAttribute vs classList

HTML Preparation code:

<style>
  :root {
  	--test-color: 'red';
  }
  
  .test {
  	color: var(--test-color);
  }
  
  .test-blue {
  	--test-color: 'blue';
  }
  
</style>

<div id="test"></div>

Script Preparation code:

el = document.getElementById("test");

Tests:

style.setProperty
let i = 0; while (i < 10000) { el.style.setProperty("--test-color","blue"); i++; }
style.cssText
let i = 0; while (i < 10000) { el.style.cssText = "--test-color:blue;"; i++; }
style
let i = 0; while (i < 10000) { el.style = "--test-color:blue;"; i++; }
Object.assign
let style = { "--test-color": 'blue' }; let i = 0; while (i < 10000) { Object.assign(el.style, style); i++; }
setAttribute
let i = 0; while (i < 10000) { el.setAttribute('style',"--test-color:blue;"); i++; }
classList
let i = 0; while (i < 10000) { el.classList.add('test-blue'); i++; }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
style.setProperty
style.cssText
style
Object.assign
setAttribute
classList

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome Mobile 130 on Android

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setAttribute

554/s

Object.assign

435/s

classList

381/s

style.setProperty

125/s

style.cssText

109/s

style

89/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setAttribute	554 Ops/sec
Object.assign	435 Ops/sec
classList	381 Ops/sec
style.setProperty	125 Ops/sec
style.cssText	109 Ops/sec
style	89 Ops/sec

CSS Variable swaps - style.setProperty vs style.cssText vs style vs Object.assign vs setAttribute vs classList (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: `style.setProperty vs style.cssText vs style vs Object.assign vs setAttribute vs classList`

Created: one year ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

style.setProperty

style.cssText

style

Object.assign

setAttribute

classList

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

CSS Variable swaps - style.setProperty vs style.cssText vs style vs Object.assign vs setAttribute vs classList (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: style.setProperty vs style.cssText vs style vs Object.assign vs setAttribute vs classList

Created: one year ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

style.setProperty

style.cssText

style

Object.assign

setAttribute

classList

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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