Meta-tags
The <META>-tags are used to store
information relevant to others than the ordinary visitor of the page. For example many
search-engines are looking for metatags telling which text should be shown when
people search the page.
Text to be shown when people
see the page in a searcengine-list:
<META name="DESCRIPTION" content="A page about basic html-coding">
Keywords that should be valued
more than others when searchengines stores the page.
<META name="KEYWORDS" content="html webdesign tags tutorial tutorials">
Specifying which
editor-program was used to produce the page:
<META name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft Frontpage 3.0">
Specifying
number of seconds before loading another page:
<META http-equiv="REFRESH" content="5; url=http://www.yahoo.com">
Note: In the example www.yahoo.com
is loaded after 5 seconds.
Specifying
that page can be viewed on content-restricted browsers.
<META http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true
comment "RSACi North America Server" for "http://www.netkontoret.dk"
on "1998.09.09T15:45-0800" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0))'>
Note: you need to visit www.rsaci.org
for a full description of this tag, as well as obtaining your own clarificationcode for
your page. The service is free and should be used on all pages since many browsers do not
allow to view pages that do not have a content-rating.
Internet Explorer 3.0 and above as well as new versions of Netscape browsers supports this
service. It is possible to lock the browser from viewing pages that has not been
classified using the RSACi-system. (On MSIE, go to View->Intenet Options, then choose
"Content" and finally enable the "content advisor" to turn on the
function).
The above listing contains the
most important metatags. If you look at the source of different pages you may find other
meta-tags than described here.
Despite from containing title-
and meta-tags the head-part of the web-page is a great place to keep your
javascript-functions. Visit the javascript-section to read
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