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Asked: 2026-06-04T12:30:45+00:00

I have following simple HTML and JS code. When User selects Italian Language option

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I have following simple HTML and JS code. When User selects Italian Language option then the JS code dynamically load an external JS file language_it.js.

<html>
<head>

<script>
function ChangePageLanguage()
{
var e = document.getElementById("langDD");
var lang = e.options[e.selectedIndex].value;

if (lang == "it")
{
    var scrptE = document.createElement("script");
    scrptE.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript");
    scrptE.setAttribute("language", "JavaScript");
    scrptE.setAttribute("src", "language_it.js");
    var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];
    head.appendChild(scrptE);
}
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<select onchange="ChangePageLanguage()" id="langDD">
    <option value="en">English</option>
    <option value="it">Italian</option>
    </select>
</body>
</html>

The language_it.js have following line of code:

alert ("Italian");

It works fine in Firefox but if I change contents of language_it.js then Chrome does not show the updated contents unless I restart the index.html page in Chrome. Is there any solution to this issue?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If your cache is stopping your script from updating properly, or you need it to be always uncached in production, you can always do something like this:

    scrptE.setAttribute("src", "language_it.js?" + (Date.now() % 10000));

    That will append a time-based string of digits that will almost always give you a unique number at the end of your URI, which should stop the browser from retrieving the file from cache.

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