Run results for: setAttribute vs style

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 13; Mobile; rv:137.0) Gecko/137.0 Firefox/137.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 137

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

style

21/s

setAttribute

8/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ style	21 Ops/sec
setAttribute	8 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.width = i+"px"; element.style.height = i+"px"; }