Run results for: Toggle hidden attribute vs toggle display:none / visibility:hidden styles

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 109

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Attribute	1472636.4 Ops/sec
modify styles - visibility hidden	886223.4 Ops/sec
modify style display none	671625.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id='toggle-visibility-here'>
  <div>children</div>
</div>

Tests:

Attribute
const element = document.getElementById('toggle-visibility-here'); element.hidden = !element.hidden;
modify styles - visibility hidden
const element = document.getElementById('toggle-visibility-here'); element.style.visibility = element.style.visibility==='hidden' ? 'visible' : 'hidden';
modify style display none
const element = document.getElementById('toggle-visibility-here'); element.style.display = element.style.display==='none' ? 'initial' : 'none';