Difference between F5, Ctrl + F5 and click on refresh button?

Question

I have often experienced while developing my web applications that pressing F5 or refresh doesn\'t produce or refresh the proper result. But when we hit Ctrl

Answer 1

F5 and the refresh button will look at your browser cache before asking the server for content.

Ctrl + F5 forces a load from the server.

You can set content expiration headers and/or meta tags to ensure the browser doesn't cache anything (perhaps something you can do only for the development environment).