HTML Learning:
The HTML Elements reference.
"meta" - html element
- Metatags are a way for you to define your web page and web site to the outside world.
- Starttag <meta> is Required and endtag </meta> is forbidden
- It should placed inside the header section ('head' ).
- You can declare keywords and description, which help your with placement in the search engines.
- In addition, you can specify who owns the copyright, how often the page is to be visited by search engines and many other useful pieces of information.
- Browsers that support the meta - element :
Attributes:
content (required), dir , http-equiv , lang , name , scheme
Attribute "content" value(s): sequence of characters
Attribute "dir" value(s): ltr or rtl
Attribute "http-equiv" value(s): name
Attribute "lang" value(s): language-code
Attribute "name" value(s): name
Attribute "scheme" value(s): sequence of characters
content (required), dir , http-equiv , lang , name , scheme
Attribute "content" value(s): sequence of characters
- Specifies a property's value for a meta element.
- The HTML specification does not list legal values for this attribute.
Attribute "dir" value(s): ltr or rtl
- Specifies the base direction of directionally neutral text in an element's content and attribute values. It also specifies the directionality of tables.
Attribute value | description |
---|---|
ltr | Left-to-right text or table. |
rtl | Right-to-left text or table. |
Attribute "http-equiv" value(s): name
- May be used in place of the name attribute. HTTP servers use this attribute to gather information for HTTP response message headers.
Attribute "lang" value(s): language-code
- Specifies the base language of an element's attribute values and text content.
Lang code | Name of Language |
---|---|
aa | Afar |
ab | Abkhazian |
af | Afrikaans |
ak | Akan |
sq | Albanian |
am | Amharic |
ar | Arabic |
an | Aragonese |
hy | Armenian |
as | Assamese |
av | Avaric |
ae | Avestan |
ay | Aymara |
az | Azerbaijani |
ba | Bashkir |
bm | Bambara |
be | Belarusian |
bn | Bengali |
bh | Bihari languages |
bi | Bislama |
bo | Tibetan |
bs | Bosnian |
br | Breton |
bg | Bulgarian |
my | Burmese |
ca | Catalan; Valencian |
cs | Czech |
ch | Chamorro |
ce | Chechen |
zh | Chinese |
cu | Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic |
cv | Chuvash |
kw | Cornish |
co | Corsican |
cr | Cree |
cy | Welsh |
cs | Czech |
da | Danish |
de | German |
dv | Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian |
nl | Dutch; Flemish |
dz | Dzongkha |
el | Greek, Modern (1453-) |
en | English |
eo | Esperanto |
et | Estonian |
eu | Basque |
ee | Ewe |
fo | Faroese |
fa | Persian |
fj | Fijian |
fi | Finnish |
fr | French |
fr | French |
fy | Western Frisian |
ff | Fulah |
ka | Georgian |
de | German |
gd | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic |
ga | Irish |
gl | Galician |
gv | Manx |
el | Greek, Modern (1453-) |
gn | Guarani |
gu | Gujarati |
ht | Haitian; Haitian Creole |
ha | Hausa |
he | Hebrew |
hz | Herero |
hi | Hindi |
ho | Hiri Motu |
hr | Croatian |
hu | Hungarian |
hy | Armenian |
ig | Igbo |
is | Icelandic |
io | Ido |
ii | Sichuan Yi; Nuosu |
iu | Inuktitut |
ie | Interlingue; Occidental |
ia | Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) |
id | Indonesian |
ik | Inupiaq |
is | Icelandic |
it | Italian |
jv | Javanese |
ja | Japanese |
kl | Kalaallisut; Greenlandic |
kn | Kannada |
ks | Kashmiri |
ka | Georgian |
kr | Kanuri |
kk | Kazakh |
km | Central Khmer |
ki | Kikuyu; Gikuyu |
rw | Kinyarwanda |
ky | Kirghiz; Kyrgyz |
kv | Komi |
kg | Kongo |
ko | Korean |
kj | Kuanyama; Kwanyama |
ku | Kurdish |
lo | Lao |
la | Latin |
lv | Latvian |
li | Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish |
ln | Lingala |
lt | Lithuanian |
lb | Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch |
lu | Luba-Katanga |
lg | Ganda |
mk | Macedonian |
mh | Marshallese |
ml | Malayalam |
mi | Maori |
mr | Marathi |
ms | Malay |
mk | Macedonian |
mg | Malagasy |
mt | Maltese |
mn | Mongolian |
mi | Maori |
ms | Malay |
my | Burmese |
na | Nauru |
nv | Navajo; Navaho |
nr | Ndebele, South; South Ndebele |
nd | Ndebele, North; North Ndebele |
ng | Ndonga |
ne | Nepali |
nl | Dutch; Flemish |
nn | Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian |
nb | Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål |
no | Norwegian |
ny | Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja |
oc | Occitan (post 1500) |
oj | Ojibwa |
or | Oriya |
om | Oromo |
os | Ossetian; Ossetic |
pa | Panjabi; Punjabi |
fa | Persian |
pi | Pali |
pl | Polish |
pt | Portuguese |
ps | Pushto; Pashto |
qu | Quechua |
rm | Romansh |
ro | Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan |
ro | Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan |
rn | Rundi |
ru | Russian |
sg | Sango |
sa | Sanskrit |
si | Sinhala; Sinhalese |
sk | Slovak |
sk | Slovak |
sl | Slovenian |
se | Northern Sami |
sm | Samoan |
sn | Shona |
sd | Sindhi |
so | Somali |
st | Sotho, Southern |
es | Spanish; Castilian |
sq | Albanian |
sc | Sardinian |
sr | Serbian |
ss | Swati |
su | Sundanese |
sw | Swahili |
sv | Swedish |
ty | Tahitian |
ta | Tamil |
tt | Tatar |
te | Telugu |
tg | Tajik |
tl | Tagalog |
th | Thai |
bo | Tibetan |
ti | Tigrinya |
to | Tonga (Tonga Islands) |
tn | Tswana |
ts | Tsonga |
tk | Turkmen |
tr | Turkish |
tw | Twi |
ug | Uighur; Uyghur |
uk | Ukrainian |
ur | Urdu |
uz | Uzbek |
ve | Venda |
vi | Vietnamese |
vo | Volapük |
cy | Welsh |
wa | Walloon |
wo | Wolof |
xh | Xhosa |
yi | Yiddish |
yo | Yoruba |
za | Zhuang; Chuang |
zh | Chinese |
zu | Zulu |
Attribute "name" value(s): name
- A control's "control name" is given by its name attribute. Identifies a property name. This HTML specification does not list legal values for this attribute.
Attribute "scheme" value(s): sequence of characters
- Names a scheme to be used to interpret the property's value
The meta element have not any Events!
The meta element cannot contain any element!
The meta element can be contained in the following element(s):
Elements | Description |
---|---|
head | This element contains information about the current document, such as its title, keywords that may be useful to search engines, and other data that is not considered document content. |
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