I have a html web page, let's say A, that redirects to another page B. I've put some banners on page A that might interest the visitors. They are put there purposefully. I need a button that will allow the visitors of page A to stop page loading, thus stop the redirection to page B. When they press the button, another button will appear with the label "Continue to page B" which, when clicked, will continue to page B.

Show us the code you're working with.

Found the solution.

Just in case some one else needs it, here it is:

function redirect() {
//"assign" a new location
location.assign("pageB.htm");
}
function cancel() {
//cancel the timer
clearTimeout(timer);
}
var timer = setTimeout("redirect()", 10000);

the value is the number of milliseconds (1000 milliseconds = 1 second) you want before the redirect happens.

also, you need to code the button to cancel:
(put this somewhere on your page)
(note: replace "STOP!" with the text you want them to see)

<form>
<input type="reset" value="STOP!" onClick="cancel()"/>
</form>