Run results for: className.indexOf vs. classList.contains

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Browser: Firefox 68

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
className	5084.3 Ops/sec
classList	7448.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

className
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { if (element.className.indexOf("test") !== -1) {} }
classList
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.classList.contains("test"); }