Getting rid of cached CSS?

[jsteph]

When I make a change to a stylesheet, and then test it in my browser, it doesn't show up right away. I try to go into Internet Options, and do 'Delete Files' (including offline files), Clear History, even Delete cookies. I then close the browser, reopen, and the change still hasn't gone through. It's not a syntax error in the css, it's a simple, easy change, and sometimes (I don't know what triggers it) the change will finally take place.

So how do I force the changes to happen immediately?
Thanks,
--Jim

 

[Chopstik]

Is it possible that you have other stylesheets on your server and that it is loading an older version (or another version)? I remember seeing somewhere that it may autoload the sheets if the names are remotely similar...

I believe the solution was to back off a copy of the stylesheet onto your local machine, wipe everything off of the server, then reload the one from your local machine back to the server. But not completely certain...

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[Tarwn]

Depending on what browser your using, Ctrl+F5 (Forced Reload) will occasionally clear this up.

I have seen some situations with IE where absolutely nothing would force it to stop caching, but that was many years ago so I can't remember exactly what the solution was. I seem to recall finding out there was a proxy server involved that was caching a little too heavily.

One option would be to change the link href to include a querystring value that was randomly generated. This is a little ugly, but should work while your still testing. Once you done I would definatly suggest changing it back to just the std path.

 

[jsteph]

Thanks all, I found what it was...the table was being generated in a separate javascript module, and that module referenced another sheet...confusing things was that I was editing that sheet at the same time, not knowing it was also referenced. Sorry for the confusion,
--Jim