Name

<meta> — NN: 2, 3, 4 - MSIE: 2, 3, 4, 5 - HTML 4 - WebTV - Opera3

Synopsis

                     <meta>

Provides additional information about the document. It should be placed within the <head> tags at the beginning of the document. It is commonly used for making documents searchable (by adding keywords) and may be used for client-pull functions. Meta tags are discussed at the end of this chapter.

Attributes

content= text

Specifies the value of the meta tag and is always used in conjunction with name= or http-equiv=.

http-equiv= text

Specifies information to be included in the HTTP header that the server appends to the document. It is used in conjunction with the name attribute.

name= text

Specifies a name for the meta information.

scheme= text

Provides additional information for the interpretation of meta data. This is a new attribute introduced in HTML 4.0.

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