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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 11; CPH2239 Build/RP1A.200720.011; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/109.0.5414.117 Mobile Safari/537.36 OPR/68.0.2254.65356

Browser: Opera Mobile 68

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Attribute	89987.1 Ops/sec
modify styles - visibility hidden	117308.6 Ops/sec
modify style display none	95341.9 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';

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

Attribute

modify styles - visibility hidden

modify style display none