A tweet-sized debugger for visualizing your CSS layouts. Outlines every DOM element on your page a random (valid) CSS hex color.
One-line version to paste in your DevTools
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if your browser aliases it:
~ 108 byte version
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.
elem.offsetLeft
, elem.offsetTop
, elem.offsetWidth
, elem.offsetHeight
, elem.offsetParent