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HyperText Markup Language/Tag List/meta
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Use
This is used to set properties on the webpage. For example, special characters.
Example
<meta http-eqiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="Keywords" content="Programming, Software, Computer" />
Required attributes
content
This simply declared the characters that are going to be used in the webpage and what the document will contain.
Optional Attributes
http-equiv
This tells the browser the type of webpage it is.
name
Name of the meta tag.
Standard attributes
content
More info
A link to a page with more info, then the name of the site the info came from (i.e. W3Schools).
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