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paulirish / what-forces-layout.md
Last active April 28, 2025 06:24
What forces layout/reflow. The comprehensive list.

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics
  • elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent
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g3d / gist:2709563
Last active January 9, 2025 17:35 — forked from saetia/gist:1623487
Clean Install – OS X 10.11 El Capitan