More information on Workspaces in Chrome. the appropriate procedure below for your web browser. Once this is done, Chrome should have no trouble picking up local changes, in fact you won't even need to reload to get the changes in many cases, and you can make edits to the local files directly from Devtools (which is extremely useful for CSS, it even comments out CSS lines when you toggle the checkboxes in the Styles tab). Sometimes you will need to reload the page once for this to function correctly. Chrome will now attempt to associate each file in the filesystem tab with a file in the page. Once allowed, the folder will appear in the "Filesystem" tab on the left. This can be done from the "Sources" tab of Devtools:Ĭlick on the "Filesystem" tab in the file browser sidebar, then click the +Plus sign button to "Add folder to workspace" - you will be prompted with a banner at the top of the screen to allow or deny local file access:
It will then detect changes in the local files, and update the page in real-time. One option would be to add your working directory to your Chrome "workspace" which allows Chrome to map local files to those on the page. css file is reloaded and the Status code (on the network tab) is 200. Doing that, I don't see a new request for the stylesheet. It is an ASP.NET MVC4 app so I click on a hyperlink, which does a GET. Is there any way to force Chrome to always reload all css changes and reload the. Nothing seems to work unless I manually stop debugging, (close out of Chrome), restart the application (in debug). Used the Chrome developer tools, click on the "gear" icon, checked "Disable Cache.".In the Command line arguments box put -incognito Paste or browse to the path for Google Chrome (Mine is C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe) css file is still cached.Ĭhoose Start External Program in the Start Action section css file inside of Visual Studio and save, refreshing the page will not load with the updated change in my. css file inside of Visual Studio 2012 (in debug mode).