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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0

Browser: Firefox 135

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

ClassName

84K/s

classList.value

41K/s

setAttribute(...)

30K/s

classList.add(...)

18K/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"; }