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<meta>

tag

Represents metadata that cannot be represented by other elements. Used for charset, viewport, SEO, and more.

Syntax

<meta name="description" content="...">

Example

html

<head>
    <!-- Character encoding -->
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <!-- Responsive viewport -->
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <!-- SEO description -->
    <meta name="description" content="Learn HTML from scratch.">
    <!-- Open Graph -->
    <meta property="og:title" content="My Page">
    <meta property="og:image" content="thumbnail.jpg">
    <!-- No index -->
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
</head>

<title>