Meta tag in HTML Assignment Help

In HTML, additional information can be added by employing metadata. The meta tag is deployed to specify name and value pairs to denote the properties of HTML document including, document author, keywords, cookies, redirection, etc.,

The < meta> tag has no ending tag, it takes attributes inside its attributes. It is possible to include more than one meta tags. It does not reflect in appearance of a web page

< head> ... < /head>tag is employed to place a < meta/> tag

The attributes of < meta> tag are name, content, scheme and http-equiv

Keyword Specification

Important keywords in a document can be specified using < meta> tag which are utilized by search engines for searching

Page Redirection

Webpage can be redirected using a < meta> tag

Cookies Setting

< meta> tag can be employed to store cookies on client and can be further utilized by the web server. The cookies store a small data in a text file format on the hard disk

Author Name Specification

To specify author name in a web page < meta> tag can be used

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