How do I cause the page to make the user jump to a new web page after X seconds. If possible I'd like to use HTML but a niggly feeling tells me it'll have to be Javascript.
So far I have the following but it has no time delay
<body onload="document.location='newPage.html'">
A meta refresh is ugly but will work. The following will go to the new url after 5 seconds:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=http://example.com/"/>
Put this is in the head:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=newPage.html">
This will redirect after 5 seconds. Make 0 to redirect onload.
You can use good ole' META REFRESH, no JS required, although those are (I think) deprecated.
If you are going the JS route just use
setTimeout("window.location.href = 'newPage.html';", 5000);
The JavaScript method, without invoking eval in the the setTimeout:
<body onload="setTimeout(function(){window.location.href='newpage.html'}, 5000)">