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Tutorials - Meta Tags: Page Redirect

Using a page redirect may be necessary if you have an old Web page (URL) that people may have bookmarked and you do not want them to get an error (page not found) or if you want to have a splash page for your site with a time delay.

Copy the following meta tag and paste it into the <head> section of your document. Don't forget to edit the bold text.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://path/file.htm" />

Here is an explanation of the items in bold from the HTML statement above:

  • "0" is the time delay, in seconds, before the redirect occurs
  • "http://path/file.htm" is the Web address of where the page is directed to.

last reviewed: January 25, 2008