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Jannette
Jannette

Reputation: 43

Is an empty meta refresh tag ignored or equivalent to 0?

I am working on a site where every page has this tag in the head:

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content=""/>

The site's CMS has a meta refresh field you can set if needed, but it's not set, so this dummy refresh tag shows up on every page.

Does the browser ignore this or is it equivalent to a "0" second refresh?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 328

Answers (1)

C3roe
C3roe

Reputation: 96151

https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/document-metadata.html#attr-meta-http-equiv-refresh describes the algorithm to process a meta refresh:

2 .If the meta element has no content attribute, or if that attribute's value is the empty string, then abort these steps.

Upvotes: 1

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