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Tag Description

The meta tag is used to provide metadata about the HTML document. Metadata is not rendered on the page, but is browser parsable.

Metadata elements are typically used to specify the document description, keywords, and author information.

This tag has the form:

<meta content="text" { http-equiv="http response header" | name="text" } />

Note: The <meta> tag must be placed within the head element.

HTML5 and HTML4.01 Differences

The "scheme" attribute is not supported in HTML5.

HTML5 has a new attribute, charset, which makes it easier to define charset.

HTML5   = New for HTML5

Attributes

Attribute Value Description
charsetHTML5 character_set Specifies the character encoding of the linked document
content text Specifies the content of the meta information

Required in HTML4.01, but not in HTML5
http-equiv content-type
default-style
refresh 		Provides an HTTP header for the information in the content attribute
name application-name
author
description
generator
keywords
Provides a name for the information in the content attribute
scheme format/URI Specifies a scheme to be used to interpret the value of the content attribute
HTML4: Supported in HTML4.01
HTML5: Not supported in HTML5

Global Attributes

This tag also supports the HTML Global Attributes.

Event Attributes

None supported.

Examples

The following examples show the basic use of this tag:

Example 1

This example shows some definitions for keywords, description, and author:

<head>
<meta name="description" content="Example web site" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Example, Test" />
<meta name="author" content="John Q. Public" />
</head>

Example 2

This example shows the differences in defining a charset for HTML4.01 and HTML5:

HTML4.01: 

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

HTML5:

<meta charset="utf-8">

Example 3

This example refreshes the page every 5 seconds:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5" />

Browser Support

Chrome Firefox IE Safari Opera

Doctype Declaration Support

The following table lists the doctype declarations this element may appear in:

HTML4.01 / XHTML1.0 XHTML 1.1 HTML 5
Traditional Strict Frameset

Miscellaneous Information

Defined In: HTML 2
Empty Tag: Yes
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