HyperText Markup Language/Tag List/meta

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[edit] Use

This is used to set properties on the webpage. For example, special characters.

[edit] Example

<meta http-eqiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="Keywords" content="Programming, Software, Computer" />

[edit] Required attributes

[edit] content

This simply declared the characters that are going to be used in the webpage and what the document will contain.

[edit] Optional Attributes

[edit] http-equiv

This tells the browser the type of webpage it is.

[edit] name

Name of the meta tag.

[edit] Standard attributes

[edit] More info

A link to a page with more info, then the name of the site the info came from (i.e. W3Schools).

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