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paulirish / what-forces-layout.md
Last active November 15, 2024 16:45
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
@psebborn
psebborn / countCSSRules.js
Last active April 25, 2023 11:43
Count the number of rules and selectors for CSS files on the page. Flags up the >4096 threshold that confuses IE
function countCSSRules() {
var results = '',
log = '';
if (!document.styleSheets) {
return;
}
for (var i = 0; i < document.styleSheets.length; i++) {
countSheet(document.styleSheets[i]);
}
function countSheet(sheet) {