This solution is written in PHP, but it should be easily adapted to other languages.
The original .htaccess
regex can cause problems with files like json-1.3.js
. The solution is to only rewrite if there are exactly 10 digits at the end. (Because 10 digits covers all timestamps from 9/9/2001 to 11/20/2286.)
First, we use the following rewrite rule in .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.[\d]{10}\.(css|js)$ $1.$2 [L]
Now, we write the following PHP function:
/**
* Given a file, i.e. /css/base.css, replaces it with a string containing the
* file's mtime, i.e. /css/base.1221534296.css.
*
* @param $file The file to be loaded. Must be an absolute path (i.e.
* starting with slash).
*/
function auto_version($file)
{
if(strpos($file, '/') !== 0 || !file_exists($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $file))
return $file;
$mtime = filemtime($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $file);
return preg_replace('{\\.([^./]+)$}', ".$mtime.\$1", $file);
}
Now, wherever you include your CSS, change it from this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/base.css" type="text/css" />
To this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo auto_version('/css/base.css'); ?>" type="text/css" />
This way, you never have to modify the link tag again, and the user will always see the latest CSS. The browser will be able to cache the CSS file, but when you make any changes to your CSS the browser will see this as a new URL, so it won't use the cached copy.
This can also work with images, favicons, and JavaScript. Basically anything that is not dynamically generated.
$("#item").removeClass();
Calling removeClass
with no parameters will remove all of the item's classes.
You can also use (but it is not necessarily recommended. The correct way is the one above):
$("#item").removeAttr('class');
$("#item").attr('class', '');
$('#item')[0].className = '';
If you didn't have jQuery, then this would be pretty much your only option:
document.getElementById('item').className = '';
Best Answer
You could also pass the content to the pseudo element with a data attribute and then use jQuery to manipulate that:
In HTML:
In jQuery:
In CSS:
If you want to prevent the 'other text' from showing up, you could combine this with seucolega's solution like this:
In HTML:
In jQuery:
In CSS: