Force browser to trigger reflow while changing CSS

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Requesting the offsetHeight of an element does everything nicely. You can force a reflow using this function and passing it the element that styles have been changed on:

function reflow(elt){
    console.log(elt.offsetHeight);
}

And call this where reflows are needed. See this example: http://jsfiddle.net/9WX5b/2/

EDIT: recently needed to do this, and wondered if there was a better way than to console.log it. You can’t just write elt.offsetHeight as it’s own statement, as the optimizer (Chrome’s, at least) will not trigger a reflow because it is just accessing a property with no getter set, no need to even evaluate it. So, AFAIK the cheapest way to do this is void(elt.offsetHeight), as it does not know for sure if void has side effects or not. (could be overridden or something, idk).

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