Run results for: Toggle hidden attribute vs toggle display:none / visibility:hidden styles

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Attribute

7.5M/s

modify styles - visibility hidden

3.5M/s

modify style display none

3.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Attribute	7,498,350 Ops/sec
modify styles - visibility hidden	3,490,552 Ops/sec
modify style display none	2,989,929 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id='toggle-visibility-here'>
  <div>children</div>
</div>

Tests:

Attribute
const element = document.getElementById('toggle-visibility-here'); element.hidden = !element.hidden;
modify styles - visibility hidden
const element = document.getElementById('toggle-visibility-here'); element.style.visibility = element.style.visibility==='hidden' ? 'visible' : 'hidden';
modify style display none
const element = document.getElementById('toggle-visibility-here'); element.style.display = element.style.display==='none' ? 'initial' : 'none';