redirect

MBK

Sorry!
Another JS question!
How can I redirect a person to a page after 15 seconds of looking at one page?
i.e user makes an error registering on my site, they are then sent to an error page telling them of their mistake - I want to wait for 15 seconds and then send them back to the page they came from.
I have done this before - but forgotten the code..

Help is appreciated - as always

raymie

You could use javascript but what happend if the user has disabled it...

just use plain old HTML...

<html><head>
<title>READPOP.com</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;URL=http://www.readpop.com/webmail.html">
</head>
</html>

The above is taken from one of my sites and redirects after 10 seconds.

br__ken

15 seconds? i only wait about 1-3 at the most before redirecting, but then again im extremely impatient 🙂 i think 90% of users would just hit the back button < 5-10ish seconds..

but the above code will work:
syntax:
<meta http-equiv=Refresh content="delay;URL=url">

or have some fun:

// js is always fun 
<script>
function cd()
{
	if(document.a.b.value<2) {
		document.a.b.value="Now!";
		location="index.php";
	}else{
		setTimeout("cd()",1000);
		document.a.b.value--;
	}
}
</script>
<body onLoad="cd();">
<form name="a">Seconds Until Redirection: &nbsp;
<input type=text style="border:none" onFocus="this.blur()" name="b" value="5">
</form>