HTML: Make a Page Refresh Every xx Seconds

A quick tip for those who just started learning HTML. It’s possible to add a line of code in your HTML page so that it’s automatically refreshed every few seconds when loaded in the user’s browser.

To make the page automatically refresh itself every 60 seconds, just insert the following code in the <head></head> section of your HTML source code:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60">

This would be very useful to display information that is constantly changing.

This can also be used to redirect the user from the current page to another, just specify the destination URL:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30; url=http://example.com/">

Which would redirect the browser to http://example.com/ 30 seconds after finishing loading the current page.

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