Run results for: Which scroll is best?

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 132

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

set scrollLeft directly

3K/s

use scrollTo

3K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ set scrollLeft directly	3,283 Ops/sec
use scrollTo	3,152 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<main id="container" style="width: 100px; overflow-x: auto;"></main>

Script Preparation code:

const container = document.getElementById("container");

for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
    const elem = document.createElement('div');
    elem.style.width = "1000px";
    container.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));
}

Tests:

set scrollLeft directly
container.querySelectorAll('div').forEach(element => { element.scrollLeft = 500; });
use scrollTo
container.querySelectorAll('div').forEach(element => { element.scrollTo(500, 0); });