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I am converting one layout to html; once I make the changes in code/html/css, every time I have to hit F5. Is there any simple javascript/jQuery solution for this? I.e. after I add the script, reload the whole page every 5 seconds (or some other specific time).

ashleedawg
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 <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; URL=http://www.yourdomain.com/yoursite.html">

If it has to be in the script use setTimeout like:

setTimeout(function(){
   window.location.reload(1);
}, 5000);
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jAndy
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    I think this is probably a better way of doing it than in javascript. – Rich May 07 '10 at 10:07
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    If the use case was that the page needed to refresh for visitors then I might agree, but for development purposes, having a block of code that you can drop into the page without having to update a URI each time is an advantage. Depending on JS isn't a problem when the developer is the entire target audience. – Quentin May 07 '10 at 10:11
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    location.reload(1) will repeat a POST if the current page is the result of a POST. That might not be desirable, if you are looking to replicate the meta refresh in Javascript. – Reuben Oct 08 '15 at 06:38
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    Reloading the current page doesn't require you to specify the page, Just: `` – ashleedawg Feb 05 '19 at 21:09
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To reload the same page you don't need the 2nd argument. You can just use:

 <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30" />

This triggers a reload every 30 seconds.

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    It is [discouraged when used for redirect](https://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback). It is not deprecated. (And it comes in very handy when you want to refresh a page and are too lazy to learn ajax :) – DinoCoderSaurus Apr 01 '17 at 18:40
  • This isn't working for me. Tried adding this line to this codepen to no avail. https://codepen.io/css-support/pen/bspdK – lolololol ol Aug 11 '18 at 18:11
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    @lololololol You have to add it in the "Stuff for " setting in the HTML's Pen Settings area. It doesn't work if you put it in the actual script. – Bret Aug 21 '19 at 18:09
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For auto reload and clear cache after 3 second you can do it easily using javascript setInterval function. Here is simple code

$(document).ready(function() {
  setInterval(function() {
    cache_clear()
  }, 3000);
});

function cache_clear() {
  window.location.reload(true);
  // window.location.reload(); use this if you do not remove cache
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<p>Auto reload page and clear cache</p>

and you can also use meta for this

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="5">
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  • Page refresh – Silver Nov 18 '16 at 05:18
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5721704/window-location-reload-with-clear-cache, if you want to lean more then please google it – Shafiqul Islam Nov 18 '16 at 08:38
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setTimeout(function () { location.reload(1); }, 5000);

But as development tools go, you are probably better off with a tab reloading extension.

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There's an automatic refresh-on-change tool for IE. It's called ReloadIt, and is available at http://reloadit.codeplex.com . Free.

You choose a URL that you'd like to auto-reload, and specify one or more directory paths to monitor for changes. Press F12 to start monitoring.

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After you set it, minimize it. Then edit your content files. When you save any change, the page gets reloaded. like this:

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Simple. easy.

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Answer provided by @jAndy should work but in Firefox you may face problem, window.location.reload(1); might not work, that's my personal experience.

So i would like to suggest:

setTimeout(function() { window.location=window.location;},5000);

This is tested and works fine.

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Alternatively there's the application called LiveReload...

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A decent alternative if you're using firefox is the XRefresh plugin. It will reload your page everytime it detect the file has been modified. So rather than just refreshing every 5 seconds, it will just refresh when you hit save in your HTML editor.

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If you are developing and testing in Firefox, there's a plug-in called "ReloadEvery" is available, which allows you to reload the page at the specified intervals.

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This will work on 5 sec.

5000 milliseconds = 5 seconds

Use this with target _self or what ever you want and what ever page you want including itself:

<script type="text/javascript">
function load()
{
setTimeout("window.open('http://YourPage.com', '_self');", 5000);
}
</script>
<body onload="load()">

Or this with automatic self and no target code with what ever page you want, including itself:

<script type="text/javascript">
function load()
{
setTimeout("location.href = 'http://YourPage.com';", 5000);
}
</script>
<body onload="load()">

Or this if it is the same page to reload itself only and targeted tow hat ever you want:

<script type="text/javascript">
function load()
{
setTimeout("window.open(self.location, '_self');", 5000);
}
</script>
<body onload="load()">

All 3 do similar things, just in different ways.

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function reload() {
  document.location.reload();
}

setTimeout(reload, 5000);
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