Run results for: setAttribute vs style

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; Redmi Note 4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.90 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 73

Operating system: Android 7.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
setAttribute	8.8 Ops/sec
style	13.8 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"; }