Run results for: setAttribute(...) vs. classList.add(...) vs classList.value vs className

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0

Browser: Firefox 131

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

ClassName

123K/s

classList.value

85K/s

setAttribute(...)

78K/s

classList.add(...)

41K/s

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HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

setAttribute(...)
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 100; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("class", "bar"); }
classList.add(...)
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 100; while (i--) { element.classList.add("bar"); }
classList.value
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 100; while (i--) { element.classList.value = "bar"; }
ClassName
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 100; while (i--) { element.className = "bar"; }