MSIE Page Transition Filters

What is a page transition?

There is a little known HTML tag that will create a merge effect whenever you load that page. The page with this tag appears over the old page, gradually filling the browser window. If you have Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher, this page will load using a page transition (NOTE: this doesn't work if you refresh a page, or in Netscape).

The META tags

The page transition is put into place using the <meta> tag shown below:

<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="revealTrans(duration=3,transition=1)">

Both of the parameters, duration and transition can be altered. duration determines how long it will take (in seconds) for the new page to fill the browser window. transition determines how the new page will fill the screen. The 22 different codes are listed below.

There is a second page transition available for when the page is replaced with another:

<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="revealTrans(duration=3,transition=1)">

The transition codes

In general, all of the transitions work better with small HTML pages with few images.