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PieMan
Advanced Member

United Kingdom
272 Posts

Pre-sales questions only
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Posted - 06/05/2019 :  05:59:44  
When changing some CSS in style.css, I wasn't seeing the updates on my web page when refreshed, even if I pressed Ctrl + F5. Using the code below forces the CSS to update when Ctrl +F5 is used to refresh.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/style.css?ts=<?=time()?>" />

Regards

Mike

Using ECT since 2003.

insight
ECT Moderator

USA
4479 Posts

Posted - 08/03/2019 :  14:44:34  
That'a good cache busting idea for development, I do something similar. But a word of caution; you don't want that on your production site or you'll lose all the performance benefits of having your css cached on the first page load, forcing the browser to fetch the same css file over and over again, for every new page visit. For production you might just want to use a version number or some such like this
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css?v=99">
and just increment that number when you actually push changes to production.

Peter


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atlend
Advanced Member

USA
321 Posts

Posted - 04/21/2021 :  06:56:58  
A little better way to do this in PHP is to get the file modification time of the specific file versus just the current time(). Downside is that I am not sure how to do a similar thing if hosted somewhere else like AWS because the script is run server side, but seems to work well for me when hosting on the same server.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css?<?= date('U',filemtime('css/style.css')) ?>">

ITZAP
Ecommerce Template Guru

Australia
1016 Posts

Posted - 04/21/2021 :  23:43:51  
Another easy solution is to ...
1) Visit your website.
2) Right-click and select "View page source" which opens the raw HTML code in another Tab.
3) Browse the code in the <head> section to find the line which loads the CSS file in question ... for example:
<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
4) Now click on that href link to open the "css/style.css" file in another Tab, which will thus refresh your browser cache to the latest version of that file.
5) Close both those open Tabs and return to your website page.
6) Press CTRL+F5 to refresh the page and all will be good !

Gary
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