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Posted by Adam Harms
Adam Harms
9,826 Points

flask cache wont clear

When I write a new style sheet command in my flask program and then try to view it in my browser it only shows the previous css settings, when I clear my cache it shows the new current css setting but if I update my css again it will not change until I clear my cache. Does anyone know a fix for this? I tried looking at stackoverflow and the and flask.pocoo.org/snippets but found nothing that actually helped.

Please help, there has to be something that will work, or Im doing it wrong...

Adam Harms
Adam Harms
9,826 Points

I found if I go into the incognito window it will work just fine. What is going on???

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points

Some browsers have switches to turn off the caching behavior. But this isn't a long term solution.

The other option is to change the HTML link to the CSS file to include a changing bit that would cause the page to get reloaded. In this blog entry, they used something like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css?version=3.2" />