How to refresh a web page automatically every specified period of time

Question

I am using asp.net to develop a website, and I want one of my web pages to refresh every 5 seconds when requested; how can I achieve that?

Answer 1

Can you add a meta tag to the page's header?

From wikipedia:

Place inside to refresh page after 5 seconds:

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

Redirect to http://example.com/ after 5 seconds:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=http://example.com/" />

Redirect to http://example.com/ immediately:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://example.com/" />

Also see w3schools

Answer 2

Here is the tag for the meta refresh:

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

Answer 3

Like ongle, I would suggest:

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

Answer 4

It should be noted that if your page is a largeish one, people on slow connections may never finish downloading the page before it refreshes.

If it is a large page and this is a concern, consider using JavaScript.

Placing this before the closing </body> tag should do the trick:

<script>setTimeout('window.location.href = window.location.href', 5000);</script>

Answer 5

Given that much of your page may not change, you may want to consider an AJAX panel for that, given that ASP.NET supports it.

Check out the tutorial

Answer 6

You could just use a meta tag or javascript as other suggested, but be careful when doing that. If you do it wrong you can break your viewstate. A better option might be to use the timer control and do a postback from there.