Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

meta

Synopsis

<meta />

Provides additional information about the document. It should be placed within the head of the document. It is commonly used to identify the media type and character set for a document. It can also provide keywords, author information, descriptions, and other metadata.

Attributes

Internationalization(lang, xml:lang, dir)

content=" text "

Required. Specifies the value of the meta element property and is always used in conjunction with name or http-equiv.

http-equiv=" text "

The specified information is treated as though it were included in the HTTP header that the server sends ahead of the document. It is used in conjunction with the content attribute (in place of the name attribute).

id=" text "

XHTML only. Assigns a unique identifying name to the element.

name=" text "

Specifies a name for the meta information property.

scheme=" text "

Provides additional information for the interpretation of metadata.