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@paulirish
paulirish / what-forces-layout.md
Last active May 19, 2024 03:45
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
@jonah-williams
jonah-williams / build.sh
Created April 30, 2011 17:46
Command line iOS project builds and over-the-air distribution
#!/bin/bash
# https://gist.github.com/949831
# http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/05/04/automated-ad-hoc-builds-using-xcode-4/
# command line OTA distribution references and examples
# http://nachbaur.com/blog/how-to-automate-your-iphone-app-builds-with-hudson
# http://nachbaur.com/blog/building-ios-apps-for-over-the-air-adhoc-distribution
# http://blog.octo.com/en/automating-over-the-air-deployment-for-iphone/
# http://www.neat.io/posts/2010/10/27/automated-ota-ios-app-distribution.html