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Run results for:
className vs. setAttribute vs. classList v5
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 121
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
Test name
Executions per second
className
1608.1 Ops/sec
setAttribute
1808.0 Ops/sec
classList
679.0 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="foo" class="demo"></div>
Tests:
className
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while(i > 0) { element.className += " bar bar2 bar3"; i--; element.className = "demo" }
setAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while(i > 0) { element.setAttribute("class", "demo bar bar2 bar3"); i--; element.className = "demo" }
classList
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while(i > 0) { element.classList.add("bar"); element.classList.add("bar2"); element.classList.add("bar3"); i--; element.className = "demo" }