HTML-Lesson 17

Meta tags

Meta tags

Meta tags are used in the head to provide additional information. Here is an example:

<meta name="description" content="A course teaching the writing of web pages" />

<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, XHTML, Javascript, CSS, DHTML " />

<meta name="author" content="Michael Rawley" />

<meta name="copyright" content="Normist Services" />

<meta name="language" content="english" />

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

The first two lines are used by search engine robotic programs. Line one is a description of the page which appears in the blurb on a search engine period. Line two lists the keywords which translate into the search terms used in looking for a page on the internet.

The third and fourth lines relate to the author and the organisation producing the page.

The last two lines describes thelanguage and the character set used on the page. This information may not be important, but if the page could be viewed from a country with a different character set, this line stops it appearing as gibberish.