Run results for: classList.contains vs. shorthand

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.114 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 89

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Use hasClass shorthand	2358669.8 Ops/sec
Use classList	4320336.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var test_element = document.getElementById("foo");

Tests:

Use hasClass shorthand
function hasClass(element, classes) { classes = classes.split(' '); for (var i = 0; i < classes.length; i++) { if (!element.classList.contains(classes[i])) { return false; } } return true; }; hasClass(test_element, "bar");
Use classList
test_element.classList.contains("bar");