Run results for: style.display = none vs. classList add hide

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 143

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

style.display = none

808/s

classList add hide

806/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ style.display = none	808 Ops/sec
classList add hide	806 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<style type="text/css">
        .hide {
            display: none;
        }
</style>
<div id="foo"></div>

Tests:

style.display = none
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 3000; while (i--) { element.style.display = 'none'; element.style.display = 'block'; }
classList add hide
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 3000; while (i--) { element.classList.add("hide"); element.classList.remove("hide"); }