Debugging Layout Shifts

Over at web.dev, Katie Hempenius learns us how to identify and fix layout shifts using the Layout Instability API and the DevTools.

What I take away from this is that you can easily spot them using DevTools: In the Rendering Panel you can enable an option to highlight areas of Layout Shift:

To enable Layout Shift Regions in DevTools, go to Settings → More Tools → Rendering → Layout Shift Regions then refresh the page that you wish to debug. Areas of layout shift will be briefly highlighted in purple.

Debugging layout shifts →

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Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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