What is Meta Data? a set of data that describes and gives information about other data (Data about Data)
Meta elements represent varies kind of meta data that cannot be expressed using the title.meta tag is self closing tag, no need to add closing tag
NOTE
Meta Tags are adding to the
<head>Section not to the<bodysection
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Adding Description to WebPage using meta tag helps to SEO.
Meta tags are pieces of information you use to tell the search engines and those viewing your site more about your page and the information it contains. Meta tags include: Title tags: the title of your page, which should be unique for every page you publish. Meta description: a description of the content on the page.
<meta name="description" content="brief description of webpage"> -
We can add some keywords like tags to the webpage to improve SEO
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, tutorial, Free"> -
We can add author to the web page.
<meta name="author" content="Neoxd"> -
Make webpage responsive
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> -
Automatically Refresh Webpage during given Seconds
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30">This Webpage refresh after every 30 seconds