CSS

muso · Mar 26, 2003

I love css

But.... does anybody know of a way I can stop the caching of the css file (it's linked to with the <link rel=> tag)? Do I have to put the whole thing in the head, or is there a way I can avoid that?

meerk · Jul 8, 2003

muso said:
I love css :wub:

But.... does anybody know of a way I can stop the caching of the css file (it's linked to with the <link rel=> tag)? Do I have to put the whole thing in the head, or is there a way I can avoid that?

The best way to use CSS is to import it eg. <link rel="stylesheet" etc> OR the '@import' method (used primarily to avoid NS 4.0 users - doesn't like CSS)

This way it will override any CSS you put in your <head> tags. That's why it's called 'Cascading Style Sheets'

meerk…

muso · Jul 13, 2003

meerk said:
The best way to use CSS is to import it eg. <link rel="stylesheet" etc> OR the '@import' method (used primarily to avoid NS 4.0 users - doesn't like CSS)

This way it will override any CSS you put in your <head> tags. That's why it's called 'Cascading Style Sheets'

meerk…

Yes, I am currently using <link rel="stylesheet...>. My problem is that the browser caches the file styles.css (referred to in the <link> tag).

No caching occurs if I embed the whole stylesheet in the head, but with a large stylesheet this is impractical if I want to change a global attribute.

urbandyke · Sep 21, 2003

you could use an include (either ssi or php) for the styles in the head if it's for practicality.

Murlyn · Sep 21, 2003

No because cache is usually on the client side and not the server side.. which ssi and php are both server side.

You can send commands to the browser so that it will not cache the content, but since there are so many bugs in browsers.. it doesnt seem to work anymore.

Here is a page that has a decent breakdown:

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/nocache.html

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