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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
@totherik
totherik / gist:3a4432f26eea1224ceeb
Last active August 30, 2024 10:18
v8 --allow-natives-syntax RuntimeFunctions
Per https://code.google.com/p/v8/codesearch#v8/trunk/src/runtime.cc
%CreateSymbol
%CreatePrivateSymbol
%CreateGlobalPrivateSymbol
%NewSymbolWrapper
%SymbolDescription
%SymbolRegistry
%SymbolIsPrivate