Run results for: className vs setAttribute vs classList

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var element = document.getElementById('foo');

Tests:

className
var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.className = "bar"; }
setAttribute
var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("class", "bar"); }
classList
var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.classList.add("bar"); }