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.
elem.offsetLeft
,elem.offsetTop
,elem.offsetWidth
,elem.offsetHeight
,elem.offsetParent
elem.clientLeft
,elem.clientTop
,elem.clientWidth
,elem.clientHeight
elem.getClientRects()
,elem.getBoundingClientRect()