Run results for: setAttribute vs style

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14092.77.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.107 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 93

Operating system: Chrome OS 14092.77.0

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
setAttribute	12.2 Ops/sec
style	30.0 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"; }