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How To Redirect Webpage

April 18th, 2009 1 comment

In this post, I am going to explain one of the two simple ways to redirect a webpage to another webpage.

Client Side Redirect (carried out by your browser)
You can create a webpage that instructs the browser to redirect a webpage to another after certain time delay. The time delay is purely optional.
This is achieved using the meta refresh command which is to be placed within the head tags. Here’s the general syntax :

<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="N; URL=destination_webpage_address">
</head>

The browser redirects the user from the current page to the destination webpage address specified in the “URL” attribute of the meta tag after a time delay of N seconds. Read more…