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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

clientHeight

3K/s

getBoundingClientRect

848/s

getComputedStyle

772/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; }