[Question] getBoundingClientRect delay needed?

Andrew Mason

• May 14, 2025 09:57

Hi. The documentation mentions the need for a 2 frame delay when getting styles with `getComputedStyle`. My question is, does this also apply to `getBoundingClientRect` when getting the position of a DOM element? 

The coherent GameUIComponents make use of `getBoundingClientRect` for navigation without any frame delays, so is it OK to skip the delay in those cases?

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  Richard Smuts

  • May 20, 2025 21:01

  In my experience you need to call engine.executeImmediateLayoutSync() after setting styles if you wish to immediately re-read the resultant bounding box generated from those styles.

  However, this may or may not impact your UI's performance depending on how complex it is.

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