HTML Meta Tag - Information about the page
Description
The meta tag allows you to provide information about the html page. It is mostly used to provide search engines with information about your page.
People interested in search engine optimisation (SEO) spend a great deal of time adjusting the information in meta tags to ensure the web page appears high in search results.
Description
Note: The meta tag only appears within the head tag.
The following meta tags contain information about the characterset of the page; Keywords to help search engines; and a description to help search engines categorize the page.
For example:
<head>
<meta
http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta
name="Keywords"
content="keyword1, keyword2, keyword3" />
<meta
name="Description"
content="This site/page is about xxxx" />
</head>
Attributes
| name |
description
keywords
text |
the name of the meta tag. |
| content |
The value of the meta tag. Contains text |
Put your keywords, description etc here |
| http-equiv |
header name e.g. content-type |
add information to the HTTP headers |
| scheme |
text |
Information to help process metadata. Not used often. |