How to add version number to HTML file (not only to css and js files)

Usually the browser takes always the newer version of your HTML.

If you wish to prevent any cache you can use those tricks:

The correct minimum set of headers that works across the most important browsers:

Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: 0

HTML

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate" />
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0" />

.htaccess (Apache)

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  Header set Cache-Control "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
  Header set Pragma "no-cache"
  Header set Expires 0
</IfModule>

Java Servlet

response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate");
response.setHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
response.setDateHeader("Expires", 0);

PHP

header('Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: no-cache');
header('Expires: 0');

ASP

Response.addHeader "Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
Response.addHeader "Pragma", "no-cache"
Response.addHeader "Expires", "0"

ASP.NET

Response.AppendHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate");
Response.AppendHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
Response.AppendHeader("Expires", "0");

Ruby on Rails

response.headers['Cache-Control'] = 'no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate'
response.headers['Pragma'] = 'no-cache'
response.headers['Expires'] = '0'

Python on Flask

resp.headers["Cache-Control"] = "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
resp.headers["Pragma"] = "no-cache"
resp.headers["Expires"] = "0"

Google Go

responseWriter.Header().Set("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate")
responseWriter.Header().Set("Pragma", "no-cache")
responseWriter.Header().Set("Expires", "0")

source: http://cristian.sulea.net/blog.php?p=2014-01-14-disable-browser-caching-with-meta-html-tags