Title: CSS changes require refreshing browser 4-10 times
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# CSS changes require refreshing browser 4-10 times

 *  [webcomm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webcomm/)
 * (@webcomm)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-changes-require-refreshing-browser-4-10-times/)
 * I’m taking over a project that uses WordPress as its CMS. When I make a CSS change,
   I have to refresh my browser 4 to 10 times before my local dev site reflects 
   the change. Obviously this is not good for my workflow. How can I address this
   issue? I’m using compass, but I’m definitely waiting until compass re-writes 
   the files before I refresh the page the first time.
 * This happens in both FF and Chrome, and it makes no difference whether I am logged
   into the WP site or not.
 * It makes no difference whether I refresh by clicking the refresh button, whether
   I put my cursor at the end of the location bar and hit return, or whether I use
   CTRL+F5. All of these methods reload the page, of course, but I have to reload
   4-10 times, every time, before the browser reflects CSS changes.
 * This is almost certainly a WP issue, or in any case an issue specific to this
   project, as it’s not happening at all with my other non-WP projects.
 * Please do not suggest clearing my browser cache. This is a workflow issue. I 
   am not going to clear the browser cache every time I want to view a small CSS
   change.
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 * PS – It’s somehow specific to the theme. It’s not happening if I change the theme.
   Hmmm.

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 *  Thread Starter [webcomm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webcomm/)
 * (@webcomm)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-changes-require-refreshing-browser-4-10-times/#post-6269238)
 * RESOLVED, sort of:
    It’s a compass issue. The terminal makes it look like compass
   is changing the CSS files right away, but it isn’t. It takes several seconds.
   I’ve not seen compass work so slowly before this.

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