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)
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content="text" Required. Specifies the value of the
metaelement property and is always used in conjunction withnameorhttp-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
contentattribute (in place of thenameattribute).-
id="text" XHTML only. Assigns a unique identifying name to the element.
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name="text" Specifies a name for the
metainformation property.-
scheme="text" Provides additional information for the interpretation of metadata.
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