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Meta
The meta command is used in the heading of the page between the <head> and </head> commands. The commands will not display anything on the page, they are mainly used by search engines and to place information about the page, the author, copyrights, and so on. They can be very useful when promoting your page.
The meta command has two attributes:
<meta name="name" content="contents">
<meta http-equiv="name" content="contents">
Values and usage of NAME:
name="value "
content="value "
usage
keywords
keywords relevant to the page separte words by a comma (,)
Used by search engines to index the page
description
detailed description of the page
Used by search engines to place the description with the index.
author
Name -author's name
Used to identify the author of the page
generator
Wordpad|Netscape Composer|Notepad|Name of application used to generate the document
Identifies the generating application
copyright
Copyright © year - author/company
Identifies page's copyright information
rating
adult|kids|general|other rating
Identifies the rating of the page
robots
all|noindex|page to index
Controls the pages indexed by search engines
distribution
global|region
Information on the distribution of the page
revisit
# of days|weeks
Controls the time robots revisit the page for update information
Values and usage of HTTP-EQUIV:
http-equiv=
content=
Usage
expires
expiration date
Used for time sensitive material
>Content-Type
text/html; charset=ISO-2022-JP
Sets the type of page content
Content-Script-Type
text/javascript|script type
Sets the default type of script the page uses
Content-Style-Type
text/css|style type
Sets the default type of style used
Refresh
5;url=http://whatever.com/page.html
Refreshes the page. "5" is the seconds to wait before refreshing, "url=" the page to load during the refresh.
Window-target
_top
Used to stop the page from being loaded into a frame
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