Topic:
The META element is used within the HEAD element to embed document meta-information not defined by other HTML elements. Such information can be extracted by servers/clients for use in identifying, indexing and cataloging specialized document meta-information. Although it is generally preferable to used named elements that have well defined semantics for each type of meta-information, such as title, this element is provided for situations where strict SGML parsing is necessary and the local DTD is not extensible.
NAME
Used to name a property such as author, publication date etc. If absent, the name can be assumed
to be the same as the value of HTTP-EQUIV.
CONTENT
Used to supply a value for a named property.
HTTP-EQUIV
This attribute binds the element to an HTTP response header. If the semantics of the HTTP
response header named by this attribute is known, then the contents can be processed based on a well
defined syntactic mapping, whether or not the DTD includes anything about it. HTTP header names are not
case sensitive. If absent, the NAME attribute should be used to identify this meta-information and it should
not be used within an HTPP response header.
<META> is legal within:
<HEAD>
The following markup can be used within <META>
none
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Expires CONTENT="Tue, 04 Dec 1993 21:29:02 GMT">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Keywords" CONTENT="Nanotechnology,
Biochemistry">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Reply-to" CONTENT="dsr@w3.org (Dave
Raggett)">