META TAG:
The meta tag is a tag in html that describes some aspects of contents of a webpage. The html <meta> is used by search engines to search information. That is provided with the webpage. This empty tag(Singular tag) which carries information within its attributes.
The meta tag is placed between the <head> and </head> tags. Metadata data will not be displayed on the webpage.
Attributes of <meta> tag-
1.name-
This attribute specifies name of the meta data like keywords,author,copyright or description etc.
The name attribute is related to author,description,keywords and copyright
e.g.<meta name="author">
2.content-
The content attribute of <meta> tag contains its values. The content attribute is used with name attribute to specify meta data about the page.
Values-
<meta name="author" content="ashu">
<meta name="description" content="Advance Web Designing">
<meta name="keywords" content="html5,learn html5,basic tutorial for html5">
3.charset-
It specifies the character encoding by the document. It is also called as a character encoding.
e.g.UTF-8-For Indian Characters
Big5-For Chinese Characters
Values-
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta charset="Big5">
4.http-equiv-
Used for http response message headers.
Values-refresh,set-cookie,content-type,expires.
1.<meta http-equiv="refresh" content=10> -Page get refresh after every 10 seconds
2.<meta http-eqiv="content-type" content="text/html" charset="UTF-8"> -specifies the character encoding foe the document.
Example 1.
Example 2-
<head>
<meta
charset="UTF-8">
<meta
name="description" content="Web Content for Basics">
<meta
name="keywords" content="HTML, CSS, JavaScript">
<meta
name="author" content="ABC">
<meta
name="viewport" content="width=device-width,
initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
The viewport is
the user's visible area of a web page. It varies with the device - it will be
smaller on a mobile phone than on a computer screen.
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