Resetting Timer on <meta http-equiv="refresh"

[George Durzi]

I'm using the following tag to refresh my page every 3 minutes.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="180; URL=default.aspx">

However, it's bound to happen that a user is working on the page, and it
refreshes, so they lose their work.

Is there any way to reset the timer when a key is pressed?

Thanks

 

[Mark]

Have you thought of using JavaScript intead of the Meta Refresh to do the
time out??
You could probably set the Page timeout in the onLoad event in the HTML and
then look for a key stroke and then reset the page timeout..

http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll/jstutor2.htm#to

HTH
Cheers
Mark

 

[Patrick Olurotimi Ige]

Don't use meta http-equiv="refresh" ..
Try using refresh Javascript for this and plug in to a KEY PRESSED or
BUTTON.

 

[George Durzi]

Thanks for the tips guys