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Status: Closed Points: 50 Time: 15:54 - Jul 11, 2006

david

Redirect webpage automatically?

How do I redirect the user automatically after a few seconds to another web page?
Is there a meta tag for this, or do I have to use javascript?
What's the best way of doing it?

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web development Websites
Web Design JavaScript
information technology HTML

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rcastagna

Date:: Jul 11, 2006

Time:: 17:45

david,

You can use either Javascript of a meta tag for this...but the meta tag is by-far the easiest to implement.

Here is the structure of the tag:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="">

The "work" is going to be done in the "content" of the tag by specifying the delay, and the url where you want the visitor to go. The delay is specified in seconds. The url needs to be the full URL, not just the name of the local file:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://www.yourserver.com/newpage.html&q...

Make sure you check the content - the quotes should be around the entire string, not just the delay or the url, and the semi-colon ";" is required between the delay and url.

If you want to do this with javascript, you'll need to rig up an onload event that is executed after the delay (specified in milliseconds).

function redirect()
{
window.location.href = "http://www.yourdomain.com/newpage.html&q...
}

Next, you'll attach an onLoad event to the <BODY> tag that after the setTimeout value (your delay) has expired, it will execute the redirect function:
<BODY onload="javascript:setTimeout('redirect()', 5000)">

Please let me know if this helps you out...

david

Date:: Jul 11, 2006

Time:: 22:45

great, the metatag works perfect. thanks for the help

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