Run results for: .disabled Vs. setAttribute("disabled", true)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 122

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

disabled

1.9M/s

setAttribute

18K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ disabled	1,894,999 Ops/sec
setAttribute	18,016 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

disabled
const element = document.getElementById("foo"); let i = 1000; while (i--) { element.disabled = true; }
setAttribute
const element = document.getElementById("foo"); let i = 1000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("disabled", "disabled"); }