Run results for: setAttribute vs style

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0

Browser: Firefox 57

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 2024 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
setAttribute	7.1 Ops/sec
style	9.8 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"; }