What are HTML redirects?

HTML redirects are one of three techniques that provide instructions to your visitor’s web browser to automatically take your user from the URL they keyed into their browser to the URL where your content now resides. In this way, you can retire an old HTML page and send users to a brand new HTML page entirely.

How do I create a redirect?

HTTP redirects are the best way to create redirections, but sometimes you don't have control over the server. In that case, try a element with its http-equiv attribute set to Refresh in the of the page. When displaying the page, the browser will go to the indicated URL.

What does meta> mean in HTML redirect?

In an HTML redirect, the tag contains two attributes, http-equiv and content. The value of http-equiv is always refresh — this tells the browser that you want to automatically refresh the page. delay_time is a numeric value that sets the delay before the browser loads the new web page.