Q: redirecting a url to another url but keeping it the same window I am wantint to redirect a url to another url  after a few seconds, but keeping it the same window I have been using 
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.google.com/" />

but keeps opening another window... anyway to keep it in the same window ? 

A: specify target ="_self" after the url
 <meta http-equiv="refresh" content ="3;url="http://www.google.com" target="_self"/>

