Automatic Redirecting...how?

Cook_1 · November 11th, 2004, 11:53 AM

Hey guys, had a Q for ya. How do you do an auto redirect to a "new" site? I'm what you'd call a newbie at HTML coding, I can make an entire site with frames or tables or what not with notepad. I can do a "click here to redirect" link (not too difficult I know), but I was wondering how to do those automatic redirects.

Thanks

embj · November 11th, 2004, 12:12 PM

It's fairly simple. Just use a bit of javascript:

Code:

<script language=javascript><!--
top.location.replace("http://www.my_domain.com/");
//-->
</script>

Cook_1 · November 11th, 2004, 12:18 PM

Excellent, thanks!

Oh and where do you usually place this tag?

After the opening html tag?

DVNT1 · November 11th, 2004, 12:20 PM

This example would redirect you to TechIMO in about 8 seconds

Code:

<HTML><META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="8; URL=http://www.TechIMO.com">

embj · November 11th, 2004, 12:31 PM

You can use either or...but, I don't recommed the meta refresh tag unless you don't want search engines to index it. If you decide to use the meta redirect instead of javascript, make sure that you don't set

Code:

CONTENT="x;

to 0 (seconds before it redirects to another page) as that will cause problems with Google.

If you want to use the javascript tags, you should put it inside of your <html></html> tags.

Cook_1 · November 11th, 2004, 12:33 PM

Excellent, much apprieated embj for all your help, and DVNT1, thank you as well.