Posted by jojo on 12/10/19 11:59

Nospam wrote:>
>>>>>>> I have a redirect in my htaccess to a php file, however I am trying
>>>>>>> to see if the redirect works from css, by this code
>>>>>>> body{background-image:url(http://www.example.com/redirect1.html);
>>>>>>> should redirect to (http://www.example.com/redirect1.php); but for
>>>>>>> some strange reason doesn't work in the css, does anyone know what
>>>>>>> is wrong?
>>>>>>>
>>>> I'm sorry, but how should this work? a browser cannot display a html
>>>> page as background-*image*...
>>>>
>>> I meant is there an alternative way of using the html page as a
>>> redirection
>>> apart from using it as a background image?
>>>
>> Oh, sorry, I got you wrong than. I guessed that you want to load a
>> random background-image or something like that using that php script. So
>> if I got you right you are searching for a way to load a different
>> document using CSS? or what exactly are you looking for? I do not really
>> understand what you are planning to do, I'm sorry.
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> Is there a simple example of redirecting to
> the php file using html , css or any other way?
>
why do you need HTML to redirect? use .htaccess:

Redirect permanent /file.html http://www.domain.de/file2.html

or php:

header("Location: http://www.example.com/file2.html");

but it is possible with HTML:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=file2.html">

But if you can avoid using the "meta-refresh" don't use it. It's some
kind of "dirty" and ASFAIK it does not work with all browsers (but with
the most)

HTH, jojo

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