Run results for: className vs setAttribute vs classList

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 119

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

className

14K/s

setAttribute

10K/s

classList

6K/s

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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"); }