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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 |