Until the advent of AJAX, to view an updated version of a page, you'd have to refresh the page. A page refresh link still has its place today for website that update frequently but don't offer AJAX or META refresh capabilities.
Click here to refresh the page
There you have it! Using the history object allows a simple refresh!
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Thanks. Very simple abd it works. (((HUGS)))
Thanks. Very simple and it works. (((HUGS)))