The other day I was trying to write some HTML to give the user the ability to reload the document in its exact state by clicking on a link. “how do you reload an html document using the <a> tag and preserve query parameters?”. At that point, it seemed pretty inconceivable to me that there was really no way to reload a document using only HTML that preserved the state of the URL. So I turned to Mastodon and Twitter for help.

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tl;dr: an empty string for your link, e.g. <a href="">Reload</a>

Source: Reloading a Document (and Preserving Query String Parameters) Using Only HTML

Good to know!