Run results for: style vs. style.cssText

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.6 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 26

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one month ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

style

23K/s

style.cssText

22K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ style	22,606 Ops/sec
style.cssText	22,138 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();