Article ID: 196471
Article Last Modified on 10/27/2002
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- Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q196471
SUMMARY
You can use client pull to set up a timed refresh period for your Web pages. When you use client pull, you can specify whether to automatically update the page or whether to proceed to another page after the specified time-out period has expired.
To implement client pull, type a special META element in the header of a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document. META elements are used within the header to embed document meta information that is not defined by other HTML elements. Client pull requires the use of the META element "HTTP- EQUIV" to implement the update. This element is then returned in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) response header.
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Adding a META Tag to the Header of Your HTML Page
- Open your page in Page view.
- On the File menu, click Properties, and then click the Custom tab.
- In the System Variables (HTTP-EQUIV) section, click Add.
- In the Name box, type refresh.
- In the Value box, type the value you want to use for seconds. For example, type 30.
- Click OK.
Click OK again.
The following code is added to the header of your page:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30">
To create a link to another page, repeat the steps above, but in step 5, type the number of seconds to wait before refreshing, a semi colon and a space, followed by "URL=newpage.htm" (without the quotation marks). For example, your meta value that refreshes the Newpage.htm document in five seconds should look like the following:
5; url=newpage.htm
This technique is especially useful when you want to create a slide show effect with your Web pages.
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REFERENCES
For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194083.
For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 version of this article, see 170206.
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