Is there an easy way to reload css without reloading the page

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I m trying to make a live  in-page css editor with a preview function that would reload the stylesheet and apply it without needing to reload the page  What would be the best way to go about this

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One more jQuery solution

For a single stylesheet with id "css" try this:

$('#css').replaceWith('<link id="css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css?t=' + Date.now() + '"></link>');

Wrap it in a function that has global scrope and you can use it from the Developer Console in Chrome or Firebug in Firefox:

var reloadCSS = function() {
  $('#css').replaceWith('<link id="css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css?t=' + Date.now() + '"></link>');
};

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Another answer  There s a bookmarklet called ReCSS  I haven t used it extensively  but seems to work   There s a bookmarklet on that page to drag and drop onto your address bar  Can t seem to make one here   In case that s broke  here s the code   javascript void function   7Bvar 20i a s a document getElementsByTagName  link   for i 0 i 3Ca length i    7Bs a i  if s rel toLowerCase   indexOf  stylesheet   3E 0 amp  amp s href  20 7Bvar 20h s href replace    amp  7C 5C  forceReload  5Cd 20      s href h 20 h indexOf      3E 0   amp        20 forceReload   20 new 20Date   valueOf    7D 7D 7D

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simple if u are using php Just append the current time at the end of the css like    lt link href  css name css  lt  php echo  time      gt   rel  stylesheet  gt    So now everytime u reload whatever it is   the time changes and browser thinks its a different file since the last bit keeps changing     U can do this for any file u force the browser to always refresh using whatever scripting language u want

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Possibly not applicable for your situation  but here s the jQuery function I use for reloading external stylesheets          Forces a reload of all stylesheets by appending a unique query string    to each stylesheet URL      function reloadStylesheets         var queryString     reload     new Date   getTime           link rel  stylesheet     each function              this href   this href replace           queryString

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Based on previous solutions  I have created bookmark with JavaScript code   javascript    var toAppend    trvhpqi      new Date    getTime    var links   document getElementsByTagName  link    for  var i   0  i  lt  links length i      var link   links i   if  link rel      stylesheet     if  link href indexOf          -1    link href          toAppend    else   if  link href indexOf  trvhpqi       -1    link href      amp     toAppend    else   link href   link href replace  trvhpqi  d 13    toAppend             void 0     Image from Firefox      What does it do   It reloads CSS by adding query string params  as solutions above     Content Site css becomes Content Site css trvhpqi 1409572193189  adds date  Content Site css trvhpqi 1409572193189 becomes Content Site css trvhpqi 1409572193200  date changes  http   fonts googleapis com css family Open Sans 400 300 300italic 400italic 800italic 800 700italic 700 600italic 600 amp subset latin latin-ext becomes http   fonts googleapis com css family Open Sans 400 300 300italic 400italic 800italic 800 700italic 700 600italic 600 amp subset latin latin-ext amp trvhpqi 1409572193189  adds new query string param with date

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There is absolutely no need to use jQuery for this  The following JavaScript function will reload all your CSS files   function reloadCss         var links   document getElementsByTagName  link        for  var cl in links                var link   links cl           if  link rel      stylesheet               link href

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i now have this       function swapStyleSheet             var old       pagestyle   attr  href            var newCss       changeCss   attr  href            var sheet   newCss  Math random 0 10               pagestyle   attr  href  sheet               profile   attr  href  old                     changeCss   on  click   function event             swapStyleSheet               make any element in your page with id changeCss with a href attribute with the new css url in it  and a link element with the starting css    lt link id  pagestyle  rel  stylesheet  type  text css  href  css1 css t     gt    lt img src  click jpg  id  changeCss  href  css2 css t   gt

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A shorter version in Vanilla JS and in one line   for  var link of document querySelectorAll  link rel stylesheet     link href   link href replace                 Date now      Or expanded   for  var link of document querySelectorAll  link rel stylesheet         link href   link href replace                 Date now

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Check out Andrew Davey s snazzy Vogue project - http   aboutcode net vogue

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On the  edit  page  instead of including your CSS in the normal way  with a  lt link gt  tag   write it all to a  lt style gt  tag  Editing the innerHTML property of that will automatically update the page  even without a round-trip to the server    lt style type  text css  id  styles  gt      p           color   f0f         lt  style gt    lt textarea id  editor  gt  lt  textarea gt   lt button id  preview  gt Preview lt  button gt    The Javascript  using jQuery   jQuery function          var  ed       editor            style       styles            button       preview              ed val  style html          button click function              style html  ed val             return false                And that should be it   If you wanted to be really fancy  attach the function to the keydown on the textarea  though you could get some unwanted side-effects  the page would be changing constantly as you type   Edit  tested and works  in Firefox 3 5  at least  though should be fine with other browsers   See demo here  http   jsbin com owapi

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In a simple manner you can use rel  preload  instead of rel  stylesheet      lt link rel  preload  href  path to mystylesheet css  as  style  onload  this rel  stylesheet   gt

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Yes  reload the css tag  And remember to make the new url unique  usually by appending a random query parameter   I have code to do this but not with me right now  Will edit later     edit  too late    harto and nickf beat me to it  -

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Since this question was shown in the stackoverflow in 2019  I d like to add my contribution using a more modern JavaScript   Specifically  for CSS Stylesheet that are not inline     since that is already covered from the original question  somehow   First of all  notice that we still don t have Constructable Stylesheet Objects  However  we hope to have them landed soon   In the meantime  assuming the following HTML content    lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html lang  en  gt     lt head gt       lt meta charset  utf-8    gt       lt link id  theme  rel  stylesheet  type  text css  href    index css    gt       lt script src    index js  gt  lt  script gt     lt  head gt     lt body gt       lt p gt Hello World lt  p gt       lt button onclick  reload  theme    gt Reload lt  button gt     lt  body gt   lt  html gt     We could have  in index js      Utility function to generate a promise that is     resolved when the  target  resource is loaded     and rejected if it fails to load     const load   target   gt    new Promise  rs  rj    gt        target addEventListener  load   rs    once  true         target addEventListener         error         rj bind null   Can t load   target href             once  true                     Here the reload function called by the button     It takes an  id  of the stylesheet that needs to be reloaded async function reload id      const link   document getElementById id      if   link     link href        throw new Error  Can t reload    id    element or href attribute missing               Here the relevant part       We re fetching the stylesheet from the server  specifying  reload       as cache setting  since that is our intention       With  reload   the browser fetches the resource  without  first looking      in the cache  but then will update the cache with the downloaded resource       So any other pages that request the same file and hit the cache first       will use the updated version instead of the old ones    let response   await fetch link href    cache   reload            Once we fetched the stylesheet and replaced in the cache       We want also to replace it in the document  so we re      creating a URL from the response s blob    let url   await URL createObjectURL await response blob           Then  we create another   lt link gt   element to display the updated style       linked to the original one  but only if we didn t create previously    let updated   document querySelector   data-link-id   id         if   updated        updated   document createElement  link        updated rel    stylesheet       updated type    text css       updated dataset linkId   id      link parentElement insertBefore updated  link           At this point we disable the original stylesheet         so it won t be applied to the document anymore      link disabled   true            We set the new  lt link gt  href      updated href   url           Waiting that is loaded      await load updated            and finally tell to the browser that we don t need      the blob s URL anymore  so it can be released    URL revokeObjectURL url

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