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) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

ClassName

221K/s

classList.value

161K/s

setAttribute(...)

108K/s

classList.add(...)

53K/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"; }