HTML - meta tag
Here you learn how to code the META tag.
Common Uses of Meta Tags
Meta tags lets webmasters specify meta data - information about a document rather than document content - inside the HEAD tags. Most of the META information is structured in the "name=content" format where "name" identifies the property name and "content" specifies the property's value. This is done to give the search engines information about your site. There are 4 common pieces of information inserted into the meta tags:- 1. Defining the character set.
The character set, defined by the "charset" attribute, identifies a character encoding, which is a method of converting the bytes into characters. Commonly used character encodings on the web include ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252, and UTF-8.
- 2. Keyword information
The "name=keywords" attribute communicates a list of keywords that are relevant to your page. Keywords are separated by commas and may be considered case sensitive by search engines.
- 3. Content description information
The "name=content" attribute communicates a description of the content on your page.
- 4. Link to the CSS file.
When a META tag refers to a seperate file, most webmasters prefer to specify the meta data via the LINK element. For example, the following Thus, the following meta data declaration:
<meta name="stylesheet" content="stylesheet.css">
would be written:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/plain" href="stylesheet.css">
Other Uses of Meta Tags
Some webmasters use the META tag for page-forwarding but instead of this you should use a server-side redirect. The META tag can be also be used to identify other properties of a document (for example: author, document expiration date, etc.) and assign values to those properties. Some search engines also support the robots attribute for indicating whether a document should be indexed by a search engine bot and whether its links should be followed. The following tag can be used to do that.<META name=robots content="noindex,follow">
META tag
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<html> <head> <title>HTML tutorial</title> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name=keywords content="html tutorial, webmasters"> <meta name=description content="This site has webmaster tutorials on HTML."> <link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css"> </head> <body> Content goes here. </body> </html> |
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