HTML <meta> Tag

Description

The <meta> HTML element defines the data (they are also called meta tags) that are used to store information intended for browsers and search engines. For example, search engine mechanisms use meta tags to get site descriptions, keywords, and other data. It is allowed to use more than one meta tag, all of them are placed in the <head> container. As a rule, the attributes of any meta tag are reduced to "name = value" pairs whose names are determined by the keywords content , name or http-equiv.

Properties

Permitted Parents: <meta charset>, <meta http-equiv>: a <head> element. If the http-equiv is not an encoding declaration, it can also be inside a <noscript> element, itself inside a <head> element
Content: None. It is an empty element.
Start/End Tags: Start tag: required, End tag: forbidden

Example

HTML

<head>

  <meta charset="UTF-8">

  <meta name="description" content="Description of website">

  <meta name="keywords" content="Keywords Used">

  <meta name="author" content="Authors Name">

</head>

Attributes

Attribute	Definition
charset	Specifies the character encoding for the HTML document
content	Specifies the property's value.
http-equiv	Used for http response message headers. For example http-equiv can be used to refresh the page or to set a cookie. Values include content-type, expires, refresh and set-cookie.
name	Name for the property. Can be anything. Examples include, keywords, description, author, revised, generator etc.
scheme	Specifies a scheme to use to interpret the property's value (as declared in the content attribute).