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
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Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)