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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Create the Content Containers

lagah rajan
lagah rajan
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lagah rajan
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i dont understand the mete tag we use here.

plz tell me about it and an example will help me a lot thanku

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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! I think you mean the <meta> tag. In this particular video, he's setting the character encoding for the page. Essentially, it's setting the character set used.

But there are plenty of other <meta> tags as well that you'll learn about later on down the line. These are tags that give generic information about the document you're looking at. Encoding is part of that. But there are also meta tags that you can include to list information about the author, description, keywords etc. You can think of this a little like a book. When you open a new book the first few pages are all about the author, publisher, publishing date etc. They are information about the book, not the information in the book.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

lagah rajan
lagah rajan
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lagah rajan
lagah rajan
1,741 Points

thanku mam nice example, i will link meta with this and try to know more about meta in further course . thanku.