<meta> tag in HTML
The <meta> tag is used to provides metadata (additional information) about HTML documents.
Important Description
- The <meta> tag is an empty element, it has no end tag.
- The <meta> tag must be close like <meta /> in XHTML.
Example of <meta> tag
- According to example, meta tag use defines page description, keywords, author, viewport, etc in HTML.
- Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable.
- Use <meta> tag to redirect your page to any other webpage.
- A <meta> viewport element gives directions to the browser how to control the pagess dimensions.
<meta> Tag Browser Support
| Element |
Chrome |
Edge |
Firefox |
Safari |
Opera |
| <meta> |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Global Attributes
Event Attributes
Attributes
The "scheme" attribute is not supported in HTML5:
| Attribute |
Value |
Description |
| charset |
character_set |
Defines the character encoding for the HTML document |
| content |
text |
Gives the value associated with the http-equiv or name attribute |
| http-equiv |
content-type
default-style
refresh |
Provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute |
| name |
application-name
author
description
generator
keywords
viewport |
Defines a name for the metadata |