Run results for: jQuery height Vs Native height

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.111 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 47

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery CSS function	80189.7 Ops/sec
jQuery height function	70089.5 Ops/sec
jquery inline styling	1990918.0 Ops/sec
native inline styling	1988176.0 Ops/sec
Native offsetHeight (IE8+)	2920375.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script
  src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.0.min.js"
  integrity="sha256-BJeo0qm959uMBGb65z40ejJYGSgR7REI4+CW1fNKwOg="
  crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

<div id="target">
</div>

Script Preparation code:

  	var $target = $("#target");
  	var target = document.getElementById("target");

Tests:

jQuery CSS function
$target.css("height");
jQuery height function
$target.height();
jquery inline styling
$target[0].style.height;
native inline styling
target.style.height;
Native offsetHeight (IE8+)
target.offsetHeight;

Run results for: jQuery height Vs Native height

jQuery CSS function

jQuery height function

jquery inline styling

native inline styling

Native offsetHeight (IE8+)