Run results for: className vs. setAttribute vs. classList

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0; Firefox 52.6.0 - 111512-1801120036-1.49

Browser: Firefox 52

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 2024 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"); }