Automatic Refreshing and
Forwarding
You can use
<META ...>
to tell the web
browser to automatically move to another web page, or
refresh the current page, after a specified period of
time.
To have the page automatically refresh itself every
x seconds, use a tag like this:
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<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="5"> |
This tells the browser to refresh the page (HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH"
),
and that it should do so every five seconds (CONTENT="5"
).
Suppose, however, that you want the page to refresh
itself by going automatically to another
page. This is common, for example, when someone has
moved their home page to a new location, but want
someone who goes to the old location to still find a
pointer. You could put this <META ...>
tag in the page at the old location:
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<META
HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"
CONTENT="5; URL=autoforward_target.html">
|
In this case the <META ...>
tag works is like the first refresh example, only with
a little added information. The first part is the
same: CONTENT="5; URL=autoforward_target.html"
tells the browser that the page should be refreshed.
CONTENT="5; URL=autoforward_target.html"
gives two pieces of information: that the
page should refresh after five seconds, and that the
new URL should be autoforward_target.html
.
In a situation like this, you should also provide a
regular link to the new page.
I hope this came in useful!
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