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Kumquats are currently trading at $1.96 per pound.
</body>
</html>
The financial wizards among you may have noticed that, with some spe-
cial software tricks on the server side, you can update the price of kum-
quats in the document so that it acts like a ticker-tape machine, with
the latest kumquat commodity price updated every 15 seconds.
13.2.2.2. Refreshing with a different document
Instead of reloading the same document repeatedly, you can tell the
browser to load a different document dynamically. You do so by adding
that document's URL after the delay time and an intervening semicolon
in the
<meta>
tag's
content
attribute. For example:
<meta http-equiv="Refresh"
content="15; URL=http://www.kumquat.com/next.html">
causes the browser to retrieve the
next.html
document from the
www.kumquat.com
web server after having displayed the current docu-
ment for 15 seconds.
13.2.2.3. Cycling between documents
Keep in mind that the effects of the
Refresh <meta>
tag apply only to the
document in which it appears. Hence, to cycle between several docu-
ments, you must include a
Refresh <meta>
tag in each one. To achieve
the effect, set the
content
value for each document in the cycle with a
URL which points to the next document, and the last document pointing
back to the first one to complete the cycle.
