Redirect a HTML page using external JS file

reachaddy · 03-08-2010, 04:54 AM

Hello,

I am in situation where I need a code to redirect a HTML page to new location (Static HTML/Dynamic Web page) however the challenge is that I can not use usual JavaScript Redirect code due to restriction that we can't execute any code/script under body tag.

I found that this can be done using an external JS file however I am not able to achieve this.

I need the code to be generic so we can apply the same JS file to any page. However, I want the new window to open over the previous one versus opening a second new window.

Can someone help me out in this?

Dormilich · 03-08-2010, 05:57 AM

why not using <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; URL=http://www.example.org/">?

reachaddy · 03-08-2010, 06:01 AM

Thank you for your reply, however as I mentioned before, I can't add any code/script withing Body, HTML tags.

d_s · 03-08-2010, 06:03 AM

Hi,

Hope your query is about the page redirection using an external javascript file.
For this reason, the following code can be placed in a separate file and then called in your page's head section.

It causes redirection in a new page.

hope this code does satisfy your intended purpose.

Code:

var wnd = window.open("http://www.google.com","_blank","true");

you may find more details on this arguments on my blog at : http://dsaravanan.wordpress.com/

Regards,

d_s

reachaddy · 03-08-2010, 06:16 AM

@ D_S,

This sound interesting. Do we have any working example. if yes plz share so that I can try for it.

d_s · 03-08-2010, 07:10 AM

Hi,

I do have the source code, here is the source code for the HTML Page

Code:

<!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>
    <title></title>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="JScript.js">
    </script>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Welcome to Auto Page Redirection </h2>
</body>
</html>

Here is the sript file for "JScript.js"

Code:

var wnd = window.open("http://www.google.com","_blank","true");

Hope this helps you..

regards,

d_s.

reachaddy · 03-09-2010, 03:30 AM

Thanks D_J, it worked as I intended.