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@paulirish
paulirish / what-forces-layout.md
Last active October 30, 2025 17:34
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
@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active October 26, 2025 03:06
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@jgeurts
jgeurts / install-graphite-ubuntu-12.04.sh
Created July 14, 2012 16:36 — forked from tkoeppen/install-graphite-ubuntu-10.04.sh
Install Graphite 0.9.10 on Ubuntu 12.04
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# BASIC REQUIREMENTS
# http://graphite.wikidot.com/installation
# http://geek.michaelgrace.org/2011/09/how-to-install-graphite-on-ubuntu/
# Last tested & updated 10/13/2011
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cd
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade