<META http-equiv refresh>

Description:

Indicates the document displays for a specified amount of time before switching to a new URL. The full absolute URL must be specified.

This is very useful (in fact it is recommended) when you need to move or rename a page on your site. Since search engines make have your page in their index, it is wise to include a redirect page to not lose those visitors.

Be sure and also include a link to the new page to support browsers which do not support this tag.

Both Internet Explorer and Netscape support this feature.

Attributes:

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="n;url">
	n is the number of seconds to wait before loading the specified URL. url is an absolute URL to be loaded.

Examples:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" 
content="1;URL=http://internet-tips.net/About/about.htm">

Load the file "http://internet-tips.net/About/about.htm" after waiting for one second.

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