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Run results for:
className vs. setAttribute vs. classList
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 137
Operating system:
Linux
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
7 months ago
className
8.7M/s
setAttribute
5.6M/s
classList
3.3M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
className
8,700,188 Ops/sec
setAttribute
5,595,469 Ops/sec
classList
3,314,686 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="foo"></div>
Script Preparation code:
var element = document.getElementById("foo");
Tests:
className
element.className = "bar";
setAttribute
element.setAttribute("class", "bar");
classList
element.classList.add("bar");