How to introduce delay for downloading ?

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    Hi,

    I am having a page where I am going to put some links for a ebook, When the user click onthe links for downloading, he will be taken to another page probably with some ads,and than the download will start in 5 seconds ..How to do this..

    Thanks..
     
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  2. mad4

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    In the page with the ads you would need to add a meta redirect as follows:

    
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10;url=http://www.domain.com/download.html">
    HTML:
    This will redirect to the specified url after 10 seconds.
     
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    You can use a simple javascript with setTimeout... You can put the download information and link in a DIV which is hidden by default. Then, you put a javascript on the body's onLoad event like this:

    <body ... onLoad="javascript: setTimeout('unhide()',5000)">

    and you have a script like this:

    <script>
    function unhide()
    {
    document.getElementById('theIDofTheDivWithDownloadInfoAndLink').style.display = 'block';
    }
    </script>

    and you div looks like this:

    <div id="theIDofTheDivWithDownloadInfoAndLink" style="display: none">
    download info and link
    </div>
     
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