December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
95 pages
2h 34m
English
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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 improving a
document’s searchability (by adding keywords) and may be used
for rudimentary push functions.
Attributes
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nameattribute.name=textSpecifies a name for the meta information.
scheme=textProvides additional information for the interpretation of metadata. This is a new attribute introduced in HTML 4.0.
Example
The http-equiv attribute is used to automatically
load pages at timed intervals using the following syntax:
<META http-eqiv="refresh" content="1; url=http://www.oreilly.com">
where the number equals the delay in seconds and the value of
url is the URL to be loaded.
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