AutoRefresh iframe content of webpage

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I have a web page and wish to autorefresh some of the content.

I currently am using:

HTML

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60" >

This refreshes the whole page every minute, which is functionally ok.

However I have an iframe on the page and it is only the content of this iframe that I want to auto refresh.

What is the simplest way to do this?

Posted 4-Feb-12 6:26am

Dalek Dave

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4 solutions

Solution 1

Put that tag inside your iframe page.

Posted 4-Feb-12 6:26am

Christian Graus

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Dalek Dave 4-Feb-12 12:40pm

I refuse to accept that it is that simple!

Is that it?

Really?

Dalek Dave 4-Feb-12 12:47pm

OK tried it and it says that Meta cannot be nested in an iframe.

Solution 4

I'm a month late for the discussion, but Graus is right. It has to work (the meta inside the frame's html)
Here's a sample.
Save this one as page.htm

XML

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<body>
  <div style="padding:25px;">
    <script>document.write(Date().toString());</script><br/>
    <iframe src="frame.htm" title="frame title"></iframe>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

& this one as frame.htm

XML

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2" >
</head>
<body>
<script>document.write(Date().toString());</script>
</body>
</html>

Fire the page.htm & you'll see the refresh.

However this is not viable if the frame's html is used as another stand alone page & you do not want to insert the 'meta refresh' inside it.

Posted 4-Mar-12 21:06pm

strogg

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thatraja · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-04T06:37:00

Solution 2

CG is right. Alternatively you may use Javascript setTimeout so dynamically you may refresh the iframe

Posted 4-Feb-12 6:37am

thatraja

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Dalek Dave 4-Feb-12 13:00pm

Thanks, it seems that you cannot put a meta tag in an iframe and the way to do it is as I have edited about, using setTimeout as you seuggested.

Espen Harlinn 8-Feb-12 19:11pm

5'ed!

**Dalek Dave** · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-04T07:18:00

Solution 3

Aha...

Thanks to Thatraja for his suggestion of setTimeout...

Here[^] is where I found salvation after having the setTimeout pointer.

Posted 4-Feb-12 7:18am

Dalek Dave

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Christian Graus 4-Feb-12 13:25pm

You should know better than to post this as an answer..... Yes, the meta tag is something I've never used, if it didn't work, the other solution was to do it the old fashioned way

Dalek Dave 4-Feb-12 13:36pm

Answer what way?

I just used the "I have solved this myself" button.
I didn't post as an "Answer".

Dalek Dave 4-Feb-12 13:36pm

As for the old fashioned way, you have to remember I am an accountant, so a lot of the "old fashioned ways" are the "new fangled ways" :)