FireFox Redirect

**MurderSkillz** · 10-21-2005, 02:55 PM

I was wondering if anyone had the code to redirect a firefox user to a specific place without it displaying a warning they will be redirected..so i pretty much want them to go to my page and then get redirected to my other page automatically without them getting a warning. Does anyone have this code if its possible? plz help!!

**Twey** · 10-21-2005, 06:08 PM

Just Firefox, or any browser other than IE?
For just any other browser, you can do:

Code:

<!-- [if !IE]--><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;other-page.htm"/><!--[endif]-->

By the way, I advise making your Firefox page the default, not the IE page. This is because Firefox is a more standards-compliant browser than IE, so if something goes wrong and a user of another browser gets stuck on the default page, it'll look better. You would do this like so:

Code:

<!-- [if IE]><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;ie-page.htm"/><![endif]-->

**MurderSkillz** · 10-27-2005, 04:46 PM

yea see what i have i have it to redirect with IE so i can just insert that code the very first one u posted plus my IE redirect? and then it will redirect IE and all others like firefox and opera and stuff like that? correct me if im wrong

**Twey** · 10-27-2005, 05:06 PM

You:re right, except where you say " it will redirect IE and all others". It won:t redirect IE. That:s the point.

P.S. sorry for the funky punctuation, I:m using a LiveCD that:s decided I have a Japanese keyboard layout.

**jscheuer1** · 10-27-2005, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by Twey

Just Firefox, or any browser other than IE?
For just any other browser, you can do:

Code:

<!-- [if !IE]--><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;other-page.htm"/><!--[endif]-->

The if/endif statement above isn't working here. This conditional comment can be used to screen in IE:



But, because it is IE proprietary, the reverse is not true, ex:



because other browsers have no idea what you are talking about. See:

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html

for proper usage and syntax of this 'feature'. I've found that exact syntax including spaces used/omitted is important.

**Twey** · 10-27-2005, 07:02 PM

I'm sorry, take the double-dashes out of those tags. It should work then. It won't, however, be valid HTML, if you are worried about this.

What I was attempting to use here, John, was the "downlevel-revealed conditional comment" (all browsers but IE being arrogantly classed as "downlevel browsers"). See http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a...omment_ovw.asp for further info.

**ekko** · 05-26-2008, 03:43 AM

i was trying to figure out after reading this how i would do the same thing for opera and safari?
myself im trying to create a meta refresh for everything except firefox..
this topic was verry helpful so far..

**jscheuer1** · 05-27-2008, 11:51 AM

There is no way to single out/exclude FF on the basis of HTML alone and the browser sniffing involved could be tricky - for example, what about Netscape 6+ which often acts just like FF? In any case, you couldn't do it with just a meta refresh tag and some comment tags. You could use javascript, but users with javascript disabled wouldn't necessarily get what you are intending unless you also had a separate 'path' for them to follow.

I suspect that the reason you want to 'avoid' FF has to do with issues that might be better solved in a different way. What exactly is the trouble with FF?

**molendijk** · 05-27-2008, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by Twey

It won't, however, be valid HTML, if you are worried about this.

Twey, what do you mean? The following is valid HTML 4.01 Strict

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<!--[if IE]>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;other-page.htm"/>
<![endif]-->

<!--[if !IE]>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;other-page.htm"/>
<![endif]-->

</head>

<body>
<p>Content</p>
</body>

</html>

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Arie.