A dumb HTML question

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i should know this but:

I need to know what tag/command forwards a page to another, like you visit this one page, and it instantly jumps you to another website.

i'd like to know ASAP please, :D

Dabz

If you need to reroute a page, you can use the following tag in the header: <META http-equiv="REFRESH" content="6; URL=index2.html"> The entire page should like the following just in case there is a problem at their end with the oage being rerouted by there browser:

<html> 
<head><title>moved</title> 
<META http-equiv="REFRESH" content="6; URL=http://www.new.isp/directory/index.html"> 
</head> 
<body> 
Moved to: <a href="http://www.new.isp/directory/">http://www.new.isp/directory/</a> . Please bookmark the new location of the site. Thank you for your understanding. 
</body>

Copy and pasted from here:-

http://iamzen.home.att.net/tricks.html

Dabz

EDIT: I'm not really clued up on HTML, so dont know if it works

wedoe

Please don't do that, it's really annoying :p

Better just make a button giving the reader the
choice rather than forcing him/her (to some shady place).

Yahfree

thanks

jfk EO-11110

content="6;

Means wait 6 seconds, then load the page. Don't use zero here since a number of browsers will block this "spam-branded" call.

Better is the php command, "location=" is it I think. Needs to be called before any HTML code is written.

GfK

PHP solution:

header("Location: www.desktopgaming.net")

[edit] For the love of God, this forum's parsing of URLs is ghastly. :/

Perturbatio

for the php solution, remember to do exit; after the header to ensure no other data is ever returned (rare, but it does happen), if anything else is spat out, the header will be corrupt.

jfk EO-11110

GfK thanks. you meant the URL with http. right? Or isn't it required?