![]() The use of the refresh to display new counter numbers is just silly. There are programs out there that update banners without refreshing the entire page. ![]() You don’t want to refresh your page unless there’s a very good reason. Two methods of using the effect incorrectly are refreshing so that a counter increases and refreshing so that a new banner ad displays. It just lowers the chance of the page getting stuck in cache. The trick is to use the full URL address so that the process starts at the very beginning.Īgain, the effect is the same as you’ll get with the code above. In fact, you could lose the JavaScript altogether and just make a simple A HREF link right to the current page. You would then change out the JavaScript formats above to simply go to the URL rather than looking at the history file. you use that full URL in each of the elements above, you’ll lessen the chance the page will cache. For example, the full URL of this page is: A Webmaster friend told me that if you simply set up a link to the current page but use the entire URL, the page would always reload from the server because the request starts at the domain. Here’s the same effect in a button:Īgain, it’s possible that a page using the methods shown above can get cached and can stop reloading from the server. The zero is the current page since in JavaScript, lists (arrays) are numbered starting with zero. Try it:Ĭlick to refresh the pageHere’s the code:Ĭlick to refresh the pageRather than using a refresh command, I like to go to the history of the page and set it to zero. It is true that pages can become cached if they are reloaded a great many times, but I have had pretty good success with this. I’ve seen this done a number of ways, but this is my favorite because it, again, forces the browser to load from the server. I don’t have a refresh on this page because the darn thing would just keep refreshing and there’s nothing on this page that will update. I found the sites displaying stock information were set to around five minutes or 300 seconds. I checked a couple of online sites and they were all set about the same. Right now, the command is set to reload every 15 seconds. ![]() Once in there, change the number of seconds you wish the page to wait before starting the reloading process. Copy and paste it into the document you wish to reload. One will reload every so many second all on its own and the other will reload when the user asks for it. You want your site to do the trick either by itself, or by offering a method whereas the user simply clicks and the browser does it for them.īelow I have two methods. That’s a proven method but it’s not exactly very pretty to have text asking the user to hold and click. Most people know it can be done by hand by holding the shift key and clicking the “Refresh” (on IE) or “Reload” (on Navigator) buttons. The trick to reloading the page is to force the browser to not look into the cache, but rather to again make a connection to the Web and bring up the document from the server. While going through my notebook of possible topics, this one came up as one that is asked about a fair amount so I thought I’d write up a quick tutorial. The answer is pretty easy so I usually just wrote and answered in the email. People wrote asking how the stock sites got their pages to reload all by themselves. ![]() I started to get email asking for this effect right around the time Internet stocks took off.
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