Automatic Refresh

To refresh the page every five seconds, add this meta element in the head element:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5">

CAUTION! While this is a valid command, it is recommended that you do not use it because of its negative effects on user experience. Refreshing the page too often can cause it to become unresponsive, and often scrolls to the top of the page. If some information on the page needs to be updated continuously, there are much better ways to do that by only refreshing a portion of a page.

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Meta information:

* Meta Information

* Page Information

* Character Encoding

* Robots

* Social Media

* Mobile Layout Control

* Automatic Refresh

* Phone Number Recognition

* Automatic redirect

* Web App

Table Of Contents

0 Getting started

1 Headings

2 Anchors and hyperlinks

3 Tables

4 Input control elements

5 Sectioning elements

6 Lists

7 Comments

8 IFrames

9 Text formatting

10 Classes and IDs

11 Images

12 Linking resources

13 Selection menu controls

14 Output element

15 Content Languages

16 Doctypes

17 Forms

18 Canvas

19 Data attributes

20 SVG

21 Meta information

22 Void elements

23 Div element

24 Label element

25 Marking up source code

26 Media elements

27 Tabindex

28 ARIA

29 Global attributes

30 Marking-up quotes

31 Include JavaScript in HTML

32 Image Maps

33 Using HTML with CSS

34 Progress element

35 Character entities

36 Paragraphs

37 HTML 5 cache

38 Embe

39 Navigation bars

40 HTML event attributes

41 Contributors