paulirish

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

sgmurphy

/**
 * Create a web friendly URL slug from a string.
 *
 * Requires XRegExp (http://xregexp.com) with unicode add-ons for UTF-8 support.
 *
 * Although supported, transliteration is discouraged because
 *     1) most web browsers support UTF-8 characters in URLs
 *     2) transliteration causes a loss of information
 *
 * @author Sean Murphy <[email protected]>