Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition

Name

<meta>

Synopsis

<meta>

Provides additional information about a document.

Attributes

charset =name

Specify the character set to be used with this document.

content =string

Specify the value for the meta-information (required).For client pulls, content=" n;url=url " tells the browser to load the specified url after n seconds. If no URL is specified, the source document will be reloaded. Must be used with http-equiv="refresh" within <meta>.

dir =direction

Specify the rendering direction for text, either left to right (ltr) or right to left (rtl).

http-equiv =string

Specify the HTTP equivalent name for the meta-information and cause the server to include the name and content in the HTTP header for this document when it is transmitted to the client. A value of refresh creates a “client-pull” within a document.

lang =language

Specify the language used for this tag’s contents using a standard two-character ISO language name.

name =string

Specify the name of the meta-information.

scheme =scheme

Specify the profile scheme used to interpret this property.