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Run results for:
className vs. setAttribute vs. classList (separately and in one go)
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/127.0.0.0
Browser:
Chrome 127
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
Test name
Executions per second
className
2471.3 Ops/sec
setAttribute
1740.2 Ops/sec
classList add separately
1444.4 Ops/sec
classList add once
3852.6 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="foo"></div>
Tests:
className
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.className = "bar"; element.className = "ding"; }
setAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("class", "bar"); element.setAttribute("class", "ding"); }
classList add separately
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.classList.add("bar"); element.classList.add("ding"); }
classList add once
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; var classList = []; while (i--) { classList.push["bar"]; classList.push["ding"]; element.classList.add(...classList); }