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=orhttp-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
nameattribute.-
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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