HTML <meta> tag

Examples

Metadata that describes the HTML document:

All major browsers support the <meta> tag.

Metadata (Metadata) data is information data.

<Meta> tag provides metadata HTML document. Metadata is not displayed in the client, then the browser will be resolved.

Last Review META element often used to describe a given page, keyword, file, authors, and other metadata.

Metadata can be used by browsers (how to display content or reload page), search engines (keywords), or other Web service calls.

Note: <meta> tag is generally placed in the <head> area.

Note: Metadata is usually name / value pairs appear.

NOTE: If no name attribute, then the name / value pairs in the name takes the value http-equiv attribute.

HTML5 does not support the scheme attribute.

In HTML5, there is a new charset attribute, which makes it easier to define the character set:

HTML 4.01: <meta http-equiv = "content-type" content = "text / html; charset = UTF-8">
HTML5: <meta charset = "UTF-8">

In HTML <meta> tag has no end tag.

In XHTML <meta> tag must have a closing tag.

Example 1 - Define the document keywords for search engines:

Example 2 - Define web page description:

Example 3 - Define page author:

Examples 4 - refresh the page every 30 seconds:

New: HTML5 new property.

属性	值	描述
charset New	character_set	定义文档的字符编码。
content	text	定义与 http-equiv 或 name 属性相关的元信息。
http-equiv	content-type default-style refresh	把 content 属性关联到 HTTP 头部。
name	application-name author description generator keywords	把 content 属性关联到一个名称。
scheme	format/URI	HTML5不支持。定义用于翻译 content 属性值的格式。

<p> tag supports all HTML event attributes .

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