Run results for: className vs. getAttribute vs. classList v

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 84

Operating system: Windows 8.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo" class="c1 c2 c3"></div>

Tests:

className
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 500; while (i--) { var z = element.className.split(/\s+/); var x = []; var l = element.classList.length; for (j = 0; j < l; j++) { x.push(z[j]); } }
getAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 500; while (i--) { var z = element.getAttribute('class').split(/\s+/); var l = z.length; var x = []; for (j = 0; j < l; j++) { x.push(z[j]); } }
classList
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 500; while (i--) { var x = []; var l = element.classList.length; for (j = 0; j < l; j++) { x.push(element.classList[j]); } }