diff --git a/src/layout/block.js b/src/layout/block.js
index 5a4ae7d..8c7e3ff 100644
--- a/src/layout/block.js
+++ b/src/layout/block.js
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ goog.scope(function() {
       // This is a very defensive move, since a display: none item that
       // is made visible when in a specific column or grid can really mess up a
       // layout
-      debug.warn('Zero-height block ignored');
+      debug.warn('Zero-height block ignored: ' + debug.idnode(node));
 
       this.ignore = true;
       return;
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ goog.scope(function() {
   Block.sanitizeNode = function(node, baseLineHeight) {
     // Should never get text & comment nodes
     if (node.nodeType !== 1) {
-      debug.error('Text node sent to sanitize: ' + node);
+      debug.error('Text node sent to sanitize: ' + debug.idnode(node));
       return node;
     }
 
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ goog.scope(function() {
     if (metrics.outerH % baseLineHeight) {
       // Shit, looks like even with the normalization, we're still out of
       // sync. Use padding bottom to fix it up
-      debug.info('Forcing padding due to mismatch: ' + node);
+      debug.info('Forcing padding due to mismatch: ' + debug.idnode(node));
 
       metrics.paddingBottom += baseLineHeight - metrics.outerH % baseLineHeight;
 
diff --git a/src/lib/debug.js b/src/lib/debug.js
index 90a364f..7946fa2 100644
--- a/src/lib/debug.js
+++ b/src/lib/debug.js
@@ -94,6 +94,25 @@ goog.scope(function() {
     }
   };
 
+  /**
+   * Helper that returns an identifying string for an HTML element
+   * @param {element} node 
+   */
+  debug.idnode = function (node) {
+    // data-sizes is as specific as we can get (id gets stripped)
+    var identifier = node.getAttribute('data-sizes');
+    if (goog.isString(identifier)) {  
+        return node+' (data-sizes='+identifier+')';
+    }
+    // classes identify it better than nothing
+    identifier = node.getAttribute('class');
+    if (goog.isString(identifier)) {  
+        return node+' (class='+identifier+')';
+    }
+    // Can't identify it, just return
+    return node;
+  };
+
   /**
    * Assert helper
    * @param {boolean} assertion