Run results for: style vs. style.cssText

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.5

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

style

14K/s

style.cssText

14K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ style	14,043 Ops/sec
style.cssText	13,535 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id='a'>foo</div>
<div id='b'>bar</div>

Script Preparation code:

var a = document.getElementById('a');
var b = document.getElementById('b');

Tests:

style
a.style.fontSize = `${20 * Math.random()}px`; a.style.letterSpacing = `-${Math.random()}em`; a.style.wordSpacing = '0em'; const x = a.getBoundingClientRect();
style.cssText
b.style.cssText = ` font-size: ${20 * Math.random()}px; letter-spacing: -${Math.random()}em; word-spacing: 0em; `; const x = b.getBoundingClientRect();