HTML & CSS

How to clear the cache of client browsers?

Hello, friends today we will learn how to clear the cache client browsers.

This technique is very simple. Just add a version parameter to the URL string which is either a random string or a random number.

If you change your sites CSS and upload on the server you will get old result only. For solve this problem, simply add ?ver=1.1 to the CSS import at the head of the file. So the browser teat as a different file.

Example:

link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Becomes

<link href="css/style.css?ver=1.1" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Same you can apply for JavaScript files.

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