How can I force Safari to perform a full page reload, without using the mouse?

I'm using Safari to preview web pages as I develop them on my local server. I've got 'Disable Caches' checked in the Develop menu. And yet Safari is still working from a cached version of a stylesheet that's linked from the HTML file being displayed.

I can sometimes override this by Option-clicking the reload button in the location bar, but I want to refresh the page automatically when I save the CSS file. At the moment I'm doing it using an AppleScript that's bound to the Save action in my text editor. I could see using Keyboard Maestro instead. But I need some consistent way to force Safari to do a full reload from the keyboard.

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Enable the Develop menu from Safari menu - Preferences - Advanced.

On Safari version 11.1 and above :

CMD+OPTION+R reloads the page ignoring cache.

On Safari version 9 and above :

CMD+SHIFT+R reloads the page ignoring cache.

Emptying caches seems not to reload the stylesheets everytimes…

On Safari below version 9 :

Empty cache and then reload so full "hot key" would be :

CMD+OPTION+E

Then

CMD+R to refresh the page

Of course probably turning opening and closing a New Private Windowfrom the File would also work but…

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The shortcut has now changed to OPTION + CMD + R. (Safari 11.1)

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There is an option in the menubar Develop->Disable Caches. This is true for Safari 5.1. I'm not sure for the rest.

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Turn on Private mode and refresh the page. It won't get it from the cache in private mode.

Hard refresh was removed as a keyboard shortcut in Safari 5. The old command for that was ⌘+SHIFT+R

CTRL+F5 May work but I can't test here.

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Workaround: in the develop menu, select "start debugging javascript" and it must reload the code properly. You can then stop debugging... I know it's not a clean solution and I'm not sure if it works always or in all versions, but it's working for me now.

I stumble upon this question and apparently the current answers do not work.

Issue is currently CMD+ALT+R opens the Responsive design.

However if the inspector is open via CMD+ALT+I, then the same shortcut does a clean refresh.

Current Safari Version: 12.1.2

CMD+L focus on the address barSHIFT+ALT+ENTER full reload for the current address

It seems to work on Safari 9

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Go to Safari's preferences and tick "Show develop menu". In the develop menu, click disable Caches.

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