HTML meta element

The <meta> HTML element represents metadata that cannot be represented by other meta-related elements, such as <base>, <link>, <script>, <style>, or <title>.

The type of metadata provided by the <meta> element can be one of the following:

If the name attribute is set, the <meta> element provides document-level metadata that applies to the whole page. If the http-equiv attribute is set, the <meta> element acts as a pragma directive to simulate directives that could otherwise be given by an HTTP header. If the charset attribute is set, the <meta> element is a charset declaration, giving the character encoding in which the document is encoded. If the itemprop attribute is set, the <meta> element provides user-defined metadata.