The <meta> element provides meta-information about your page, such as descriptions and keywords for search engines and refresh rates.
Supported In HTML4: Yes
Supported In HTML5: Yes
HTML4 vs HTML5 Differences: The scheme attribute is not supported in HTML 5. HTML 5 has a new attribute, charset, which makes it easier to define charset.
Attributes
| Title | Values | Description | HTML4 Support | HTML5 Support |
| charset | character encoding | Defines the character encoding for the document | No | Yes |
| content | some_text | Defines meta information to be associated with http-equiv or name | No | No |
| http-equiv | content-type expires refresh set-cookie | Connects the content attribute to an HTTP header | No | No |
| name | author description keywords generator revised others | Connects the content attribute to a name | No | No |
| scheme | format/URI | No | No |
Standard Attributes
All standard attributes are supported.
Event Attributes
HTML5 Tags
- a
- abbr
- acronym
- address
- applet
- area
- article
- aside
- audio
- b
- base
- basefont
- bdo
- big
- blockquote
- body
- br
- button
- canvas
- caption
- center
- cite
- code
- col
- colgroup
- command
- datalist
- dd
- del
- details
- dfn
- dir
- div