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Redirect a web page ...to another page or site

The meta tag: http-equiv="refresh" has been condemned by some search engine "crawler" programs as a "spam" indicator. Using this tag on your web pages will disallow your listings on some search engines. Though the tag is still useful for intranet and slide show purposes, it is advised that the refresh function be indicated with a JavaScript on World Wide Web pages rather than using the .html tag.

The HTML tag that will reload the current Web page after 5 seconds

To reload the same page:

To reload a new page:

JavaScript equivalent to this tag is:

Insert the following in the <head> section:

setTimeout("location.replace('http://www.yahoo.com')",4000);

</SCRIPT>

Replace www.yahoo.com with the url that you wish the page to refresh to.

Note: 4000 is the refresh time expressed in milliseconds ....this page will refresh

in 4 seconds. This is an adjustable value.