Re: meta refresh to another page

Marshall Dudley wrote:

> I need that when a page is loaded another page will pop up to all the
> person to do an upload.

In a word "Yuck". It used to be possible to pull that off with JavaScript,
but since most browsers have built in popup blockers now, that isn't
practical any more.

> <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="2;
> URL=http://kingcart.com/upload.html">
> 
> But despite what I have read about that tag, it loads the new page in
> the same window, instead of opening a new window.

Whatever you've read is wrong. Very wrong.

> I have tried adding 
> target="_blank" to that tag, but that seems to be ignored.  

Probably because the <meta> element doesn't have a target attribute.

> Is there any way to get this to work?

No. Stick to the window the user has provided you with instead.

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