Chrome does not show updated contents of external JS file which is loaded dynamically in HTML page
html, javascript
Solution
If your cache is stopping your script from updating properly, or you need it to be always uncached in production, you can always do something like this:
scrptE.setAttribute("src", "language_it.js?" + (Date.now() % 10000));
That will append a time-based string of digits that will almost always give you a unique number at the end of your URI, which should stop the browser from retrieving the file from cache.
Problem
I have following simple HTML and JS code. When User selects Italian Language option then the JS code dynamically load an external JS file `language_it.js`. ``` <html> <head> <script> function ChangePageLanguage() { var e = document.getElementById("langDD"); var lang = e.options[e.selectedIndex].value; if (lang == "it") { var scrptE = document.createElement("script"); scrptE.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript"); scrptE.setAttribute("language", "JavaScript"); scrptE.setAttribute("src", "language_it.js"); var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0]; head.appendChild(scrptE); } } </script> </head> <body> <select onchange="ChangePageLanguage()" id="langDD"> <option value="en">English</option> <option value="it">Italian</option> </select> </body> </html> ``` The `language_it.js` have following line of code: ``` alert ("Italian"); ``` It works fine in Firefox but if I change contents of `language_it.js` then `Chrome` does not show the updated contents unless I restart the index.html page in `Chrome`. Is there any solution to this issue?