Last Updated: December 26, 2018
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· codesbyaxel

Reload page on every visit, also when using the back-button

Do you want to reload your webpage one time, every time the page is visited, also when people are pressing the back-button? Simply use this code:

/*! Reloads page on every visit */
function Reload() {
try {
var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];
if (headElement && headElement.innerHTML)
headElement.innerHTML += "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"1\">";
}
catch (e) {}
}

The code above does not work in mobile safari. To force mobile safari to reload the page one time, simply add these lines of code:

/*! Reloads on every visit in mobile safari */
if ((/iphone|ipod|ipad.*os 5/gi).test(navigator.appVersion)) {
window.onpageshow = function(evt) {
if (evt.persisted) {
document.body.style.display = "none";
location.reload();
}
};
}

4 Responses
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OMG!! Super THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!! you saved my life!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

over 1 year ago ·

Great!
Thank you very much. No other 'solution' did work -cache headers and so on...

over 1 year ago ·

how make to reload only on back/next button click? I am almost crazy searching for a solution!

Thanks

over 1 year ago ·

try this

$(window).bind("pageshow", function(event) {
if (event.originalEvent.persisted) {
location.reload();
}
});

over 1 year ago ·