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The META Tag
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Name Meta Description This tag is used to describe meta information about the page.  Multiple META tags can be used.  META tag must be contained within the HEAD tag. Attributes CONTENT Used in conjunction with the http-equiv and name attributes to supply the value. HTTP-EQUIV Can be set to one of the following: Value Meaning content Example content-type Specifies the type of document text/html; charset=windows-1252 expires Specifies the expiration date of the document.  This causes the browser to reload the document after the set date. Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:01:21 GMT refresh Causes the browser to automatically reload the document after the specified number of seconds 50 set-cookie Sets the name and value for a persistent cookie name=value;expires=Tuesday, 17-Oct-06 21:06:21 GMT; path=/ NAME Can be set to one of the following: Value Meaning content Example author Sets the name of the document's author Martin Allen description Specifies the description of the document.  This is used by some search engines to describe the site in the listings. Describes how to use the META tag keywords Specifies words used to describe the site.  These must be separated by a space.  Some search engines use these words to display your site if the user types them as search terms.  The more keywords you specify, the more likely your site will appear in the results. meta html tags tag head attributes generator A META tag is usually created by HTML editors to show that it was used to create the document HTML Editor 1.02.0007 by Martin Allen 2000 revised Records when the page was revised 17 Oct 2006 Related Tags META tags are used within the HEAD tag. Example Code <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="50"> <meta name="description" content="martin2k"> <meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0"> Bibliography http://www.html-reference.com/META_httpequiv_expires.htm http://www.html-reference.com/META_httpequiv_setcookie.htm http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/meta.php Please fill in the below form if you have any comments or additional information you want to add about the above information.  If you have any questions, please visit the Forum.  Any questions sent using this form will be ignored. * - Mandatory *Name: E-mail: *Comments: *Please type the following code (your comment cannot be accepted without it): © Martin Allen 1999 - 2006.  Last updated Tuesday 17 October 2006 09:56:09 PM +0100.