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className vs. setAttribute vs. classList
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.1 Safari/605.1.15
Browser:
Safari 18
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
className
26K/s
classList
12K/s
setAttribute
12K/s
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Executions per second
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className
25,576 Ops/sec
classList
12,323 Ops/sec
setAttribute
12,179 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="foo"></div>
Tests:
className
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.className = "bar"; }
setAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("class", "bar"); }
classList
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.classList.add("bar"); }