Run results for: setAttribute vs style

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_8 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/95.0.4638.50 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 95

Operating system: iOS 14.8

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
setAttribute	82.7 Ops/sec
style	246.7 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"; }