How do I change CSS file version in django

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Hello everybody,
I would like to add the current date as a version of a css file in my django project to "bypass" the browser cache

What I have tried:

this seems work

Python

context = {
        'menu_list': menu_list,
        'date': datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S'),

    }

    return render(request, 'index.html', context)

and I tried this on my base.html page

HTML

<link href="{% static 'css/custom.css' %}?v={{date}}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" id="app-style"/>

in the web view i see this

HTML

<link href="/static/css/custom.css?v=2023-01-19-09:43:21" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" id="app-style">

but the browser cache problem is still the same

Posted 18-Jan-23 21:55pm

Marco Garganigo

Updated 19-Jan-23 23:11pm

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Richard Deeming 19-Jan-23 5:43am

A colon in a query-string will need to be encoded as %3A - it would probably be easier to use the - character as the time separator:

'date': datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S')

But if you never want the file cached, it would be better to have it returned with appropriate "no-cache" headers. How you configure that will depend on which web server you're using.

[no name] 19-Jan-23 8:30am

nvm now its working

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