Question

I’m trying to get the styles.css to not cache as the server is having issues with the css when it caches.

<script>
var numBAH = Math.floor(Math.random()*100);
</script>

<link href="styles.css+ numBAH +" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Answer 1

If you have access to a server-side language it would be neater to render the link tag with a query string that is a hash of the entire content of the file. In that way, the cache invalidator ey will change only when the content of the file has actually changed.

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After having seen the discussion that has followed, about how you never want to use cache, because it loads too quickly, I want to change my answer. Not to new Date(), but to: fix your page so that loading quickly is a desired result. If you’re having specific problems with that, create a question that targets those problems, don’t go directly for the lousy workaround.