HTML <meta> tag

HTML <meta> tag

The <meta> tag adds machine-readable information to an HTML document.

Information added with the <meta> tag is used by the web crawler and the browser but it is not displayed to the user.

Example

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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS,Javascript"> </head> <body> <p>Body content goes here.</p> </body> </html>

Attributes

The following are the attributes of <scheme> tag. Also try Global attributes.

AttributeValueExplanation
charsetcharacter_setSpecifies the character encoding for the web page.
contenttextContains the value for the name or http-equiv attribute, depending on which is used.
http-equiv
  • content-security-policy
  • refresh
Specifies the name of a HTTP header.
name
  • application-name
  • author
  • description
  • generator
  • keywords
  • referrer
Specifies the name of the metadata.

Deprecated Attributes

The following attribute should not be used in any case.

AttributeValueExplanation
schemeformatSpecifies the scheme in which metadata is described.

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