Whenever I make changes to files I am hosting for my website, like the CSS files, they never update. Even after deleting the original CSS files everywhere, using Chrome's inspect element still shows that the websites HTML is being styled by the "style.css" file that doesn't exist. The only way I have found around this is by changing the HTML pages to be styled by a "style2.css", and renaming my updated CSS file to "style2".
Is this not insanely weird? Ghost files? I'm not going crazy right?
Try refreshing with CTRL+F5 instead of only F5
This will clear the already cached files like css and js and will reload the updated ones
Let's say you have style.css
with
.body{
background-color:white;
}
after that you change the same style.css file to
.body{
background-color:black;
}
sometimes the navigator won't read the new code in css/js
and will load the old ones unless you clear them
This could be your problem, try it and check again
Or you could check out this case : How to force the browser to reload cached CSS and JavaScript files
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I have been getting this weird problem where, when I upload a new CSS file to the public_html folder in cPanel, it is not updating on the website.
Whats really weird about it was that I uploaded the entire website again. Every html file, every folder, everything. And when I checked the CSS file it was the updated version, but the browser was somehow reading the old one.
To fix this issue I had to change the name of the CSS file (in all of the html files too because without it they were still using the old one even tho it was nowhere in the folder) and re upload the whole website again.
So, am I missing something here? Is this supposed to happen? Or is this actually weird and shouldn't happen at all?
I've also run into this problem. It seems to be a caching issue. Trying this person's trick is how I narrowed it down to being a caching issue:
https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/css-html-files-updating-on-cpanel-but-not-on-website/271683/5
Smells like cache to me.
If your recent changes are NOT there, then play a trick on the URL by changing the path a little. For example if the path was /themes/mytheme/assets/custom.css or whatever it is, change the version and do something like /themes/mythemes/assets/custom.css?v=1234567
By changing the URL in this way, it would bypass any kind of cache that would be looking for the previous URL. In other words, you should now see your correct CSS file.
I am writing my first web application using Flask and SQLAlchemy.
My CSS file is currently saved under a static folder and the styling is correctly applied to my webpage
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ url_for('static', filename='main.css') }}">
However when I try to update it (for example changing the fontweight from bold to normal) it will not show.
I could even remove all the content of my css file and my website will still look the same (as if the content was never deleted).
The only way I found to make updates was to create a new file "main2.css" and update the url link from the HTML file which is very inconvenient.
Has anyone found a better way?
It sounds like your CSS file is cached. You can test this by changing 'main.css' to 'main.css?something'. Some people append a date string or other to their CSS file so it busts cache periodically.
It's possible you're getting the cached version of your CSS. After making updates to your CSS file, have you tried doing a hard reload? How you do this depends on the browser, but for Safari this can be done by holding Shift and clicking the Reload button.
I had the same issues and I realised I couldn’t keep asking my users to do a hard reload. Constantly renaming my static folder (where all CSS/JS files were kept) seemed error-prone from a production devops perspective. Then I found this addon called flask-static-digest, which was adding md5 hashes to the file names as well as gzipping them. It is a good fix for my production server.
https://github.com/nickjj/flask-static-digest
Another solution I found was really helpful during testing is to do a full reload in your browser (in my case Google Chrome) by shift-clicking the reload button.
I have a wordpress website. I usually make changes in CSS file of theme without any problem but there is file in which CSS changes do not appear. But they do appear while inspecting element.
But while inspecting it shows some digits after the file name. The file name is theme.css, but inspector show me the file name: theme.css?ver=15350008013:1
CSS is compacted and all codes are in one line.
Any change in the CSS file not happen but in the inspector shown. Why CSS editing not working?
This is fairly standard of most caching plugins for Wordpress.
theme.css?ver=15350008013:1
Is requesting a cached version of the file.
The CSS being all in one line is a minified version of the file. This is done to reduce the load on the server by making the file smaller.
Suggestions:
Look through your theme settings to see if there is any mention
of caching.
Look through your plugins and see if there is any
mention of caching.
Once found, clear / flush the cache.
Your changes should now be loaded by the server.
Generally what happens when you clear out the cache is that your plugin / theme will be unable to find a cached version and will minifiy and generate you a new version based off the original and you will see a new number at the end of the request string to tell the browser that the version it has downloaded previously is old and that it needs the new one.
I have a question about file permissions of html - css files served by httpd (on CentOS).
I have a website with several html - php - css files. When a user enters the URL of my website, index.html is displayed as it should. I tried to browse one of my css files (just for fun), and I realized that css source code is displayed in the browser. I do not publish the css files and their exact names of course, but some names (e.g style.css , bootstrap.css etc) are trivial, and one can try and get the styling of my webpage easily.
What is the solution to that? I cannot take off the read permissions of these files, because apache would not style the html files (since it will not be able to read the css).
There's no solution to that, css files must be readable and downloadable. You can minify them if you want them to be less readable (and smaller which is its real use).
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I made some css changes to my custom css file and uploaded the css file. However the changes are not shown. I have tried all of following:
remove var/cache/*
flush js/css cache from magento admin
clear browser cache
flush siteground cache
I even tried removing the css file and then access it from url URL, the old file content still shows but the css effects were gone on front UI.
what could be wrong.....
It is likely that your browser is still caching your CSS files. One way to check if it is indeed the browser and not say accidentally editing the wrong CSS file is by enabling and disabling the CSS file merge. By doing so you are forcing the browser to fetch for a whole new file - essentially bypassing caching.
You may also want to take a look at our CSS/JS Versioning extension which includes automatic refresh of the file name hash based on CSS/JS file timestamps (sensitive to editing and changes) http://extensions.activo.com/css-and-javascript-versioning.html