Run results for: setAttribute vs style

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; Pixel 4a) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.73 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 99

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
setAttribute	14.7 Ops/sec
style	25.0 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"; }