how to cancel auto-refresh?

[redss]

I have a webpage that refreshes every minute using the tag
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60">

I want button or link that the user can click to cancel the page from auto-refreshing.

Any ideas on how to do that? Perhaps javascript using the onbeforeunload event?

 

[vvlad]

Instead of <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60"> you could use setInterval and clearInterval together with location.reload.

vlad

 

[redss]

Ok I'll try that. Question: if I have the browser refresh every minute with setInterval("callreload()",60000) then how do I cancel that?
Thanks!

 

[cLFlaVA]

you would need to store the interval's identifier, then clear it.

// sets the interval
var intId = setInterval("callreload()", 60000);

// clears the interval
clearInterval( intId );

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[redss]

that works great, thanks!