Basic HTML problem | Tech Off

Arowin

Hi all,

I'm sorry about the seemingly simple question, but I can't for the life of me (and three other people I've asked here at work) what the problem is....

Here's my basic test HTML page (test.html):

<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="5;url=test.html"> <script> var cur = 5; function start() { cur--; window.setTimeout("start();", 1000); document.getElementById("test").innerHTML = cur; } </script> </head> <body onload="start();"><span id="test"></span></body> </html>

As you can see, it's got a basic countdown that gets displayed on the page and the page should refresh after 5 seconds (To another page - just in this case it's the same page).

What my question has to with is the META tag.

The refresh works fine in Firefox. I can see nothing wrong with the code, but the refresh does nothing when I try it in Internet Explorer...

Is there something I'm doing wrong that's blatantly obvious? Is it just me? Smiley

CannotResolveSymbol
Microsoft: Who do you want to execute today?

Works fine here on IE6 and 7 Beta3. Only thing I can think of is a security setting stopping it (Meta refresh is disabled if you have the zone's security setting set to high):

My file used to test:

Relative hyperlink in redirect: MetaRefreshRelative.html

Absolute hyperlink in redirect: MetaRefresh.html

jmacdonagh

By the way, if you aren't changing the URL when you refresh, you dont need the url= in the content attribute of the meta tag.

Matthew van Eerde
AKA Maurits

Be aware that the HTTP Refresh header is non-standard.

phreaks

Matthew van Eerde wrote:
Be aware that the HTTP Refresh header is non-standard.

You don't need META-Refresh in JS enabled Browsers.

Not a web guy, so I dunno what the difference really is...
If someone could enlighten me, well that would be peachy.

<html>
<head>
    
      <script>
        var cur = 5;
        var URL = "test.html"
        function start() {
          cur--;
          window.setTimeout("start();", 1000);
          document.getElementById("test").innerHTML = cur;
          if(cur == 0) {
          window.location.href = URL;
          }
       }
      </script>
    </head>
    <body onload="start();"><span id="test"></span></body>
</html>