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META for 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">
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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.
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