Run results for: Get precise height : getComputedStyle vs getBoundingClientRect vs innerHeight

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 130

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

clientHeight

58/s

getBoundingClientRect

42/s

getComputedStyle

29/s

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HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

getComputedStyle
var i = 5000; while (i--) { checkDisplay('foo'); } function checkDisplay(id) { return window.getComputedStyle(document.getElementById(id), null).getPropertyValue("height").slice(0, -2); }
getBoundingClientRect
var i = 5000; while (i--) { checkDisplay('foo'); } function checkDisplay(id) { return document.getElementById(id).getBoundingClientRect().height; }
clientHeight
var i = 5000; while (i--) { checkDisplay('foo'); } function checkDisplay(id) { return document.getElementById(id).clientHeight; }