Run results for: js css - style.cssText vs style vs setAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:150.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/150.0

Browser: Firefox 150

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setAttribute

5.9M/s

style.cssText

309K/s

style

143K/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<div id="test"></div>

Script Preparation code:

el = document.getElementById("test");

Tests:

style.cssText
el.style.cssText = "color:red;border:1vmin solid red;padding:0.5vmin;background-color:black;height:1vh;width:1vw;";
style
el.style.height = '1vh'; el.style.width = '1vw'; el.style.color = 'red'; el.style.border = '1vmin solid red'; el.style.backgroundColor = 'black'; el.style.padding = '0.5vmin';
setAttribute
el.setAttribute('style',"color:red;border:1vmin solid red;padding:0.5vmin;background-color:black;height:1vh;width:1vw;");