Meta-refresh doesn't work?

Question

I have a page using something along the lines of

but for certa

Answer 1

The problem is that when IE sees this:

it expects the contents attribute to contain a number. The only time IE will check for a URL is if the content attribute contains "URL=" so the redirect that is most usable in all browsers is this:

The above example would redirect immdetiately but if you changed the 0 for another number it would wait that many seconds. Hope this all makes sense, it should work just fine but I still think my first idea was the better one.