Refresh page every 5 minutes

Willem

Can someone tell me how I can get a page(any page) on the Internet to
refresh automatically every 5 minutes. I was thinking along the lines of
having a HTML file on my C-drive with JavaScript to do so. It should be
possible, Right?

I don't know much about JavaScript.

Thanks for the help.
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the world would be more stabilised)

Jul 20 '05 #1

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Evertjan.

Willem wrote on 29 jun 2003 in comp.lang.javascript:

Can someone tell me how I can get a page(any page) on the Internet to
refresh automatically every 5 minutes. I was thinking along the lines of
having a HTML file on my C-drive with JavaScript to do so. It should be
possible, Right?

I don't know much about JavaScript.

you could build a framepage
and refresh a frame (theirs) from another hidden one(yours)

something like:

function reload1(){
document.parent.frame[1].location.reload()
setTimeout("reload1()",300000)
}
setTimeout("reload1()",300000)

not tested !!!

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Jul 20 '05 #2

Mike Johnston

It's not javascript and I don't know which browsers support it but
you can put the following in the header:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600">

Mike Johnston

Jul 20 '05 #3

Mjscholey

You can also use the meta tag in the head ie. <meta http-equiv="refresh"
content="number of seconds"; url="nextpage.html>"

Jul 20 '05 #4

Liu, Chunyen

<html><head><title>a title</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content=300>
</head>
<body>
content
</body>
</html>

-----Original Message-----
From: Willem [SMTP:ho***@absamail.co.za]
Posted At: Sunday, June 29, 2003 10:57 AM
Posted To: comp.lang.javascript
Conversation: Refresh page every 5 minutes
Subject: Refresh page every 5 minutes

Can someone tell me how I can get a page(any page) on the Internet to
refresh automatically every 5 minutes. I was thinking along the lines
of
having a HTML file on my C-drive with JavaScript to do so. It should
be
possible, Right?

I don't know much about JavaScript.

Thanks for the help.
--
Willem Van der Mescht
ho***@absamail.co.za
http://myweb.absamail.co.za/horsy
(If there were more horses around
the world would be more stabilised)

Jul 20 '05 #5

Willem

Thanks for the efort you've put in to help me. This is perfect.

Willem Van der Mescht
ho***@absamail.co.za
http://myweb.absamail.co.za/horsy
(If there were more horses around
the world would be more stabilised)

PS Sorry Lasse, didn't mean to use your E-mail address, it was ment to go to
the group.
"Lasse Reichstein Nielsen" <lr*@hotpop.com> wrote in message
news:ad**********@hotpop.com...

"Willem" <ho***@absamail.co.za> writes:
Can someone tell me how I can get a page(any page) on the Internet to
refresh automatically every 5 minutes. I was thinking along the lines of
having a HTML file on my C-drive with JavaScript to do so. It should be
possible, Right?

I don't know much about JavaScript.
Try something like this:
--- reloader.html ---
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Reloader!</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="30, *">
<frame name="input" src="reloaderInput.html">
<frame name="page" src="about:blank">
</frameset>
</html>
------

--- reloaderInput.html ---
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>input</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
var interval = undefined;
function go(){

parent.frames['page'].location.href=document.forms[0].elements['url'].value; }
function start(form) {
if (interval) {clearInterval(interval);}
var time = parseFloat(form.elements['time'].value);
interval = setInterval(go,Math.floor(time*1000));
go();
}
function stop() {
if (interval) {
clearInterval(interval);
interval=undefined;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<form target="page" action="" onsubmit="start(this);return false;">
<label for="url">URL:<input type="text" id="url"></label>
<label for="time">Frequency in seconds<input type="text" id="time"></label> <input type="submit" value="Go!">
<input type="button" value="Stop" onclick="stop()">
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
------

/L
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Jul 20 '05 #6

Ivan Marsh

On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 20:58:38 +0200, Willem wrote:

Thanks for the efort you've put in to help me. This is perfect.

"Lasse Reichstein Nielsen" <lr*@hotpop.com> wrote in message
news:ad**********@hotpop.com...
"Willem" <ho***@absamail.co.za> writes:
> Can someone tell me how I can get a page(any page) on the Internet to
> refresh automatically every 5 minutes. I was thinking along the lines
> of having a HTML file on my C-drive with JavaScript to do so. It
> should be possible, Right?
>
> I don't know much about JavaScript.

Refreshing an entire page on an interval doesn't require scripting it can
be accomplished with a straight HTML META tag, the exact syntax of which
escapes me at the moment.

<META REFRESH='60000'> Something like that. Anyone have the exact syntax?
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Jul 20 '05 #7

harinda

just try this out

window.setTimeout(' window.location="URL"; ',5000);

:)

Harinda

Jul 6 '06 #8

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