The HTML <meta> Tag
The HTML <meta> tag is used to provide metadata about the HTML document which includes information about page expiry, page author, list of keywords, page description etc.
Following are few of the important usages of <meta> tag inside an HTML document −
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Meta Tag Example</title>
<!-- Provide list of keywords -->
<meta name = "keywords" content = "C, C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Python">
<!-- Provide description of the page -->
<meta name = "description" content = "Simply Easy Learning by Tutorials Point">
<!-- Author information -->
<meta name = "author" content = "Tutorials Point">
<!-- Page content type -->
<meta http-equiv = "content-type" content = "text/html; charset = UTF-8">
<!-- Page refreshing delay -->
<meta http-equiv = "refresh" content = "30">
<!-- Page expiry -->
<meta http-equiv = "expires" content = "Wed, 21 June 2006 14:25:27 GMT">
<!-- Tag to tell robots not to index the content of a page -->
<meta name = "robots" content = "noindex, nofollow">
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result −
