Run results for: setAttribute vs style

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; SM-A035F) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 104

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
setAttribute	10.6 Ops/sec
style	16.4 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"; }