Run results for: className vs. setAttribute vs. classList

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 13729.56.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.95 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 89

Operating system: Chrome OS 13729.56.0

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

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