Example Use the name attribute to define a description, keywords, and the author of an HTML document: <head> <meta name=...
Example
Use the name attribute to define a description, keywords, and the author of an HTML document:<head> <meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials" /> <meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS,XML,JavaScript" /> <meta name="author" content="Hege Refsnes" /> </head> |
Definition and Usage
The name attribute provides a name for the information in the content attribute.The value of the name attribute depends on the value of the content attribute.
If the http-equiv attribute is set, the name attribute should not be set.
Browser Support
The name attribute is supported in all major browsers.Syntax
<meta name="value" /> |
Attribute Values
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| author | Defines the author of the document |
| copyright | Defines copyright information of the document |
| description | Defines a description of the document |
| distribution | Defines the distribution level of the document (like "Global") |
| generator | Defines the program used to generate the document |
| keywords | Defines keywords to describe the document |
| progid | Defines the id of a program used to generate the document |
| rating | Defines webpage rating |
| resource-type | Defines the type of the web resource |
| revisit-after | Defines the expected update rate of the web resource |
| robots | Defines rules for robots (web crawlers for search engines) |
| others | You can define your own names in a schema |
