Meta data (<meta />)

Document's meta data provide or can provide a lot of information about the loaded document.

The most common meta data added are page description, keywords, copyright information, author of the document, document reloading information, document re-directing etc...

This tag can be even used to change behaving of a search engine bot (robot). Let say if a page is being re-directed it is useful not to index it by a search engine.

Meta data that include keywords is often used to help search engines index the site better.

Meta information always comes as a property name/value pairs and has no limit on number of <meta> tags used.

The meta data does not get displayed in a visual browser.

Meta is an empty element, therefore the closing tag is forbidden.

Syntax:

<meta />

Attributes:

lang (language information), dir (text direction)
name, content, scheme (meta data properties)
http-equiv (message header)

Example

HTML meta elements:

<html>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="description" content="Brenko.web HTML tutorial" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="Sun, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
<meta name="Googlebot" content="noarchive" />

<title>HTML tutorial</title>
</head> 

<body> 

<h4>Document's <b>metadata</b> contains crucial information about the document</h4>

<p>This document's metadata tags are:</p>

<pre>&lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /&gt;</pre>
<pre>&lt;meta name="description" content="Brenko.web HTML tutorial" /&gt;</pre>
<pre>&lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="Sun, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT" /&gt;</pre>
<pre>&lt;meta name="Robots" content="none" /&gt;</pre>
<pre>&lt;meta name="Googlebot" content="noarchive" /&gt;</pre>

</body>

</html>

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Meta data (<meta />)

Syntax:

Attributes:

Example

HTML meta elements:

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