Difference between F5, Ctrl + F5 and click on refresh button?

Question

I have often experienced while developing my web applications that pressing F5 or refresh doesn\'t produce or refresh the proper result. But when we hit Ctrl

Answer 1

F5 triggers a standard reload.

Ctrl + F5 triggers a forced reload. This causes the browser to re-download the page from the web server, ensuring that it always has the latest copy.

Unlike with F5, a forced reload does not display a cached copy of the page.