JavaScript Page Refresh
You can refresh a web page using JavaScript location.reload method. This code can be called automatically upon an event or simply when the user clicks on a link. If you want to refresh a web page using a mouse click, then you can use the following code −
<a href="javascript:location.reload(true)">Refresh Page</a>
To understand it in better way you can Refresh Page.
Auto Refresh
You can also use JavaScript to refresh the page automatically after a given time period. Here setTimeout() is a built-in JavaScript function which can be used to execute another function after a given time interval.
Example
Try the following example. It shows how to refresh a page after every 5 seconds. You can change this time as per your requirement.
Live Demo<html> <head> <script type = "text/JavaScript"> <!-- function AutoRefresh( t ) { setTimeout("location.reload(true);", t); } //--> </script> </head> <body onload = "JavaScript:AutoRefresh(5000);"> <p>This page will refresh every 5 seconds.</p> </body> </html>
Output
This page will refresh every 5 seconds.