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111 Pointsmeta tag
what is a meta tag
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta chareset+"utf-8">
<title>cameron allen designer</title>
</head>
<body>
<header>
<h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
<h2>Designer</h2>
</header>
<section>
<p>Gallery will go here.</p>
</section>
<footer>
<p>© 2014 cameron allen.</p>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
2 Answers
Roy Penrod
19,810 PointsA meta tag is a tag that gives the web browser "meta information" that describes something about the overall HTML document.
For example, the meta tag above should look like this:
<meta charset="utf-8">
It tells the browser to use the Unicode character set. If you want to learn more about what Unicode is, you can check out the Unicode website.
You don't need to understand the inner workings of Unicode to use it. Just know that specific meta tag should go in the head of every HTML page you create and you're fine.
jason chan
31,009 PointsMeta tags are information it gives to social media and google. It's the text you see on search results. That's meta.