concept of meta

Guest · Jul 25, 2006

hey all,

can someone give me a definition for dummies for the following:

<html>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=http://localhost/helloworld.htm" />

what's the concept behind the <meta> tag?

thanks,
rodchar

Mark Fitzpatrick · Jul 25, 2006

Meta tags in general? Meta tags are essentially information about the
informaiton in the page. This particular meta tag is an http meta tag. It's
telling the browser some information. This one is saying that after 5
seconds, redirect to the following url. If you leave the URL off, the
browser is told to refresh every 5 seconds for the current page.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

concept of meta

Guest

Mark Fitzpatrick