Run results for: className vs. setAttribute vs. classList

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

className

22K/s

setAttribute

9K/s

classList

9K/s

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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"); }