Run results for: setAttribute vs style

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:107.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/107.0

Browser: Firefox 107

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
setAttribute	15.7 Ops/sec
style	25.2 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"; }