Run results for: setAttribute vs dataset.attrName

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:153.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/153.0

Browser: Firefox 153

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one month ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setAttribute

14K/s

dataset

8K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setAttribute	14,076 Ops/sec
dataset	8,431 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

setAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("data-state", "active"); }
dataset
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.dataset.state = "active"; }