Redirection Pages

If You arrived here without clicking the link then the browser You are using does support the REFRESH tag.

Redirection pages are commonly used when a web site or certain page is relocated, perhaps the owner of the page (or website) is changing folder names, servers or just renaming files. Instead of having the same page on the internet twice a redirection page (witch could be much smaller) could be used in place of a page. For an example I will use this page as the target and the redirect page will be linked to below. You should see the browser flash through 6 pages then returning here, as each of the pages are loaded the REFRESH tag will tell the browser to auto load another page.

Click the smiley face to follow this redirection link...

As You can see, it all happens very fast (depending on Your computer) but this will be slower on the Internet, due to the downloading of each page.

To Make use of the refresh tag You simply include a "META" tag between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags in the source code for Your page. In the META tag You include CONTENT="XXX; URL=filename.html" where XXX is the delay in seconds to pause (after loading) before refreshing and the URL is to the HTML file You wish to load.

Example Refresh tag...

<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="10; URL=refresh2.html">

Take notice of the Quotation marks around content="10; URL=refresh2.html" this is a little unusual!

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