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Asked: May 10, 20262026-05-10T16:09:10+00:00 2026-05-10T16:09:10+00:00

How do I cause the page to make the user jump to a new

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How do I cause the page to make the user jump to a new web page after X seconds. If possible I’d like to use HTML but a niggly feeling tells me it’ll have to be Javascript.

So far I have the following but it has no time delay

<body onload='document.location='newPage.html''> 
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  1. 2026-05-10T16:09:10+00:00Added an answer on May 10, 2026 at 4:09 pm

    A meta refresh is ugly but will work. The following will go to the new url after 5 seconds:

    <meta http-equiv='refresh' content='5;url=http://example.com/'/> 

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh

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