HyperText Markup Language/Tag List/meta

Use edit

This is used to set properties on the webpage. For example, special characters.

Example edit

<meta http-eqiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="Keywords" content="Programming, Software, Computer" />

Required attributes edit

content edit

This simply declared the characters that are going to be used in the webpage and what the document will contain.

Optional Attributes edit

http-equiv edit

This tells the browser the type of webpage it is.

name edit

Name of the meta tag.

Standard attributes edit

More info edit

A link to a page with more info, then the name of the site the info came from (i.e. W3Schools).