Refresh page every 5 minutes

Willem · Jun 29, 2003

Can someone tell me how I can get a page(any page) on the Internet to
refresh automatically every 5 minutes. I was thinking along the lines of
having a HTML file on my C-drive with JavaScript to do so. It should be
possible, Right?

I don't know much about JavaScript.

Thanks for the help.

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the world would be more stabilised)

Evertjan. · Jun 29, 2003

Willem wrote on 29 jun 2003 in comp.lang.javascript:

Can someone tell me how I can get a page(any page) on the Internet to
refresh automatically every 5 minutes. I was thinking along the lines of
having a HTML file on my C-drive with JavaScript to do so. It should be
possible, Right?

I don't know much about JavaScript.

you could build a framepage
and refresh a frame (theirs) from another hidden one(yours)

something like:

function reload1(){
document.parent.frame[1].location.reload()
setTimeout("reload1()",300000)
}
setTimeout("reload1()",300000)

not tested !!!

Mike Johnston · Jun 29, 2003

It's not javascript and I don't know which browsers support it but
you can put the following in the header:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600">

Mike Johnston

Liu, Chunyen · Jun 30, 2003

<html><head><title>a title</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content=300>
</head>
<body>
content
</body>

Willem · Jul 1, 2003

Thanks for the efort you've put in to help me. This is perfect.

Willem Van der Mescht
(e-mail address removed)
http://myweb.absamail.co.za/horsy
(If there were more horses around
the world would be more stabilised)

PS Sorry Lasse, didn't mean to use your E-mail address, it was ment to go to
the group.

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen said:
Willem said:

Can someone tell me how I can get a page(any page) on the Internet to
refresh automatically every 5 minutes. I was thinking along the lines of
having a HTML file on my C-drive with JavaScript to do so. It should be
possible, Right?

I don't know much about JavaScript.

Click to expand...

Try something like this:
--- reloader.html ---
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Reloader!</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="30, *">
<frame name="input" src="reloaderInput.html">
<frame name="page" src="about:blank">
</frameset>
</html>
------

--- reloaderInput.html ---
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>input</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
var interval = undefined;
function go(){
parent.frames['page'].location.href=document.forms[0].elements['url'].value;
}
function start(form) {
if (interval) {clearInterval(interval);}
var time = parseFloat(form.elements['time'].value);
interval = setInterval(go,Math.floor(time*1000));
go();
}
function stop() {
if (interval) {
clearInterval(interval);
interval=undefined;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<form target="page" action="" onsubmit="start(this);return false;">
<label for="url">URL:<input type="text" id="url"></label>
<label for="time">Frequency in seconds<input type="text"

Ivan Marsh · Jul 2, 2003

Thanks for the efort you've put in to help me. This is perfect.

Refreshing an entire page on an interval doesn't require scripting it can
be accomplished with a straight HTML META tag, the exact syntax of which
escapes me at the moment.

<META REFRESH='60000'> Something like that. Anyone have the exact syntax?

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Refresh page every 5 minutes

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