HTML tag

Browser support

IE	Firefox	Chrome	Safari	Opera

All browsers support the <meta> tag.

Definition and usage

<meta> element provides meta-information about the page, such as for search engines and Description and keywords for update frequency. The

<meta> tag is located at the head of the document and does not contain any content. The <meta> tag's properties define the name/value pairs associated with the document.

Differences between HTML and XHTML

In HTML, the <meta> tag does not have a closing tag.

In XHTML, the <meta> tag must be closed properly.

Tips and Notes:

Note: The <meta> tag is always inside the head element.

Note: Metadata is always passed in name/value pairs.

Required properties

Properties	Value	Description
content	some_text	Define meta-information related to the http-equiv or name attribute

Optional attributes

namescheme

name attribute

The name attribute provides the name in a name/value pair. Neither HTML nor XHTML tags specify any predefined <meta> names. In general, you are free to use names that are meaningful to you and to readers of the source document.

"keywords" is a frequently used name. It defines a set of keywords for the document. Some search engines use these keywords to classify documents when they encounter them.

A meta tag like this may be helpful for getting indexed by search engines:

<meta>

If the name attribute is not provided, the name in the name/value pair will use the value of the http-equiv attribute .

http-equiv attribute

The http-equiv attribute provides a name for a name/value pair. and instructs the server to include name/value pairs in the header of the MIME document to be sent to the browser before sending the actual document.

When the server sends a document to the browser, it first sends a number of name/value pairs. Although some servers send many of these name/value pairs, all servers send at least one: content-type:text/html. This tells the browser to prepare to accept an HTML document.

When using the <meta> tag with the http-equiv attribute, the server will add the name/value pair to the content header sent to the browser. For example, add:

<meta>
<meta>

so that the header sent to the browser should contain:

content-type: text/html
charset:iso-8859-1
expires:31 Dec 2008

Of course, only browsers can accept these additional header fields and use them in an appropriate manner. These fields only make sense when you use them.

content property The

content property provides the value in a name/value pair. The value can be any valid string.

The content attribute should always be used together with the name attribute or the http-equiv attribute.

scheme attribute

The scheme attribute is used to specify the scheme to be used to translate the attribute value. This scheme should be defined in the profile specified by the profile attribute of the

tag.

• Redirection example demonstrates: redirecting the user to another address when the URL has changed.

Sorry. We have moved. Your URL is http://www.php.cn/;/a>

You will be redirected to the new address within 5 seconds.

If it has been more than 5 seconds and you still see this message, please click the link above.

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Attributes	Value	Description
http-equiv	##content-type ##expires refresh set-cookie Associate the content attribute to the HTTP header.
	author description keywords generator revised others Associate the content attribute to a name.
some_text	Define the format used to translate the content attribute value.