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Saturday, December 4, 2010

The Meta Element or the Document MetaData

 Hi guys!! here's another information about the meta element. I hope this topic can help you with your web page. ENJOY Reading!!

The <meta> element is used to add metadata to a document. Normally, it provides descriptive keywords for search engines. The <meta> element can also provide different kinds of HTTP request, such as refresh rates and expiration time. It defines name/value pairs that relate the document.

Here's an example of the name/value pairs:

name="keywords" content="book, web development"

or

http-equive="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"



Listed below are the most common attributes you can use for this element:
  • name - provides the name of the name/value pair. The most common used name is "keywords".
  • http-equive - provides the name of the name/value pair and tells the server to attach the name/value pair in the HTTP header field that will be passed to the browser before sending the actual document.
  • content - provides the value of the name/value pair. The value can be any valid string. bit it should always be joined to either the name or http-equive attributes.

Here's an example on how to use the <mate> element:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C //DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
     <head>
          <mata http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
    charset=utf-8" />
           <meta name="keywords" content="book, web development" />
            <title>Document  Metadata Example</title>
       </head>

<body>
      <h1>
           Document Metadata Example
      </h1>
  </body>
</html>

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