The META element is used to associate extra information with the document. The most common use of META is to supply keywords and descriptions about the document for search engines:
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="The Meta Element">
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="html, meta">
Attribute Information
content
- IE3, IE4, IE5, NS3, NS4
http-equiv
- IE3, IE4, IE5, NS3, NS4
dir
(i18n)
ltr
rtl
lang
(i18n)
CDATA
name
- IE3, IE4, IE5, NS3, NS4
scheme
DTD Information
The DTD defines the set of elements that can be properly contained within the element.
This element is an empty Element which means there is no end tag.
The end tag for this element is optional. This means that the end tag is implied by the first occurance of a tag that does not belong within this element.
Any red entries in the DTD list are considered exclusions and are not valid within this tag.