The Meta element is an extensible mechanism for use in identifying
specialized document meta-information. Each Meta element occurrence specifies a
Name/Value pair. If multiple Meta elements are specified with the same
name, their combined CONTENT sections should be concatenated as a comma
separated list to be associated with the common NAME value.
Specifies the value of the Name/Value pair. The values allowed for
this attribute are dependent on the NAME or HTTP-EQUIV attribute used.
Values: Alphanumeric string value.
HTTP-Equiv
2 | 3
| 3.2 | 4
| IE2 | M2
| N1.1 | O3
Required? No
Description:
This attribute binds the Meta CONTENT element to an HTTP header
field. When a browser requests a particular page containing a META
HTTP-Equiv element from a server, the CONTENT portion of the element
will be attached to the document header that is passed to the browser
before the rest of the actual document content. The browser or HTTP
server may use this information to process the document. Values are
not case sensitive.
Values: Alphanumeric keyword string value.
Name
2 | 3
| 3.2 | 4
| IE2 | M2
| N1.1 | O3
Required? No
Description:
An attribute that specifies the name of the Name/Value pair. If not
present, HTTP-EQUIV must be supplied in its place.
Values: Alphanumeric keyword string value.
Scheme
2 | 3
| 3.2 | 4
| IE | M
| N | O
Required? No
Description:
Indicates a pre-determined scheme/format to be used to interpret the
CONTENT attribute value in cases where multiple formats are supported.
Values: Dependent on the property name and the profile being used.
Url
2 | 3
| 3.2 | 4
| IE4 | M
| N | O
Required? No
Description:
Indicates the URL to reload after the time specified in the CONTENT attribute.
To help search engines better index your pages, the KEYWORDS and
DESCRIPTION values are strongly recommended to authors, especially for
use in top-level structure pages.