<meta>

HTML <meta> Tag

Instance

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"> 
<title>php中文网(php.cn)</title> 
<meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials">
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS,XML,JavaScript">
<meta name="author" content="Ståle Refsnes">
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<body>

<p>所有 meta 标签显示在 head 部分...</p>

</body>
</html>

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Browser support

All major browsers support< meta> tag.

Tag definition and usage instructions

Metadata is the data information of the data. The

The META element is typically used to specify a web page's description, keywords, the file's last modification, author, and other metadata.

Metadata can be called using browsers (how content is displayed or pages are reloaded), search engines (keywords), or other web services.

Tips and Notes

Note: The <meta> tag is usually located in the <head> within the area.

Note: Metadata usually appears in name/value pairs.

Note: If the name attribute is not provided, the name in the name/value pair will take the value of the http-equiv attribute.

Differences between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

HTML5 does not support the scheme attribute.

In HTML5, there is a new charset attribute that makes character set definition easier:

HTML 4.01: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
HTML5： <meta charset="UTF-8">

Differences between HTML and XHTML

In HTML the <meta> tag does not have a closing tag.

In XHTML the <meta> tag must contain a closing tag.

Example

Example 1 - Define document keywords for search engines:

Example 2 - Define web page description:

< ;meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials on HTML and CSS">

Example 3 - Definition page author:

Example 4 - Refresh the page every 30 seconds:

Attribute

New: HTML5 new attribute.

Attributes	Value	Description
charsetNew	character_set	Define the character encoding of the document.
content	text	Defines meta-information related to the http-equiv or name attribute.
http-equiv	content-type Default-style refresh	Associate the content attribute to the HTTP header.
name	application-name Author Description Generator keywords	Associate the content attribute to a name.
scheme	format/URI	HTML5 is not supported. Define the format used to translate content attribute values.

Event attributes

<p> tag supports all HTML event attributes.

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