Run results for: setAttribute vs style.cssText

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0

Browser: Firefox 135

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

style

61/s

setAttribute

44/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ style	61 Ops/sec
setAttribute	44 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

setAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("style", "width: "+i+"px; height: "+i+"px;"); }
style
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { element.style.cssText = `width: ${i}px; height: ${i}px;`; }