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Created June 21, 2022 04:10 — forked from paulirish/what-forces-layout.md
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
/*
* Copyright (c) 2010 Tobias Schneider
* This script is freely distributable under the terms of the MIT license.
*/
(function(){
var UPC_SET = {
"3211": '0',
"2221": '1',
"2122": '2',