Run results for: display: none vs content-visibility: hidden

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_6_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.6.2

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

display: none

28.1M/s

content-visibility: hidden

27.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ display: none	28,057,862 Ops/sec
content-visibility: hidden	27,460,750 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById('container');
ul = document.createElement('ul');
var html = [];
    for ( var i=0; i<2000; i += 1 ) {
  	html.push(`<li>${i}</li>`);
}
 ul.innerHTML = html.join('');
 container.appendChild(ul);

Tests:

display: none
var elements = Array.prototype.slice.call(container); for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { elements[i].style.display = "none"; }
content-visibility: hidden
var elements = Array.prototype.slice.call(container); for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { elements[i].style.contentVisibility = "hidden"; }