Force DOM redraw/refresh on Chrome/Mac

Question

Every once in a while, Chrome will render perfectly valid HTML/CSS incorrectly or not at all. Digging in through the DOM inspector is often enough to get it to realize the

Answer 1

Most answers require the use of an asynchroneous timeout, which causes an annoying blink.

But I came up with this one, which works smoothly because it is synchroneous:

var p = el.parentNode,
    s = el.nextSibling;
p.removeChild(el);
p.insertBefore(el, s);