Benchmark: className vs. setAttribute vs. classList - add/remove class

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo"></div>

Tests:

className
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.className = "bar"; element.className = ""; }
setAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("class", "bar"); element.removeAttribute("class"); }
classList
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.classList.add("bar"); element.classList.remove("bar"); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

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Run details: (Test run date: 3 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36 OPR/68.0.3618.165

Browser/OS: Opera 68 on Windows

className vs. setAttribute vs. classList - add/remove class (version: 0)