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Introduction

Using the meta Element to Simulate an HTTP Header

You use the http-equiv attribute to specify which header you want to simulate, and the content attribute to provide the value you want to use.

The code sets the refresh header and a value of 5, which asks the browser to reload the page every five seconds.

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head> 
      <base href="http://java2s.com"> 
      <meta name="author" content="java2s.com"> 
      <meta name="description" content="A simple example"> 
      <meta charset="utf-8"> 
      <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5"> 
   </head> 
   <body> 
      <p>
          I like 
         <code id="myId">HTML</code>
          and CSS. <!--  w  ww.j  a  v a  2 s. c  o m-->
      </p> 
      <a href="http://java2s.com">Visit java2s.com</a> 
      <a href="page2.html">Page 2</a>  
   </body>
</html>

There are three permitted values for the http-equiv attribute listed in the following table.

Attribute Value Description
refresh set a period in seconds, after which the current page should reload from the server. You can also specify a different URL to be loaded. For example: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; http://www.java2s.com"/>
default-styleset the preferred stylesheet that should be used with this page. The value of the content attribute must match the title attribute on a script or link element in the same document.
content-type set the character encoding of the HTML page. For example: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html charset=UTF-8"/>

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