Run results for: setAttribute vs style

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; SAMSUNG SM-G935F Build/R16NW) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/7.4 Chrome/59.0.3071.125 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 59

Operating system: Android 8.0.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
setAttribute	10.4 Ops/sec
style	17.5 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"; }