Meta Tags

In the <head> section of an HTML page, various meta tags can be set. These give the web browser useful information. Here you can learn what each one means.

name='Description'

Provides a brief summary of the webpage that can be used by search engines.

name='generator'

Indicates which software was used to produce the webpage.

name='Keywords'

A list of words that relate to the content of the current webpage.

property='og:description'

The description that will be displayed when this page is shared on social media.

property='og:image'

An image that will be displayed when this page is shared on social media.

property='og:title'

The title that will be displayed when this page is shared on social media.

property='og:type'

A hint to social networks about what sort of content is on the webpage.

property='og:url'

The URL that should be displayed when a page is shared on social media.

name='robots'

Tells bots how to handle the indexing of the webpage.

name='theme-color'

A suggested color that can be used to customize the user interface around a webpage.

name='viewport'

Gives mobile browsers hints as to the initial size of the viewport to use for website.

http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible'

Allows websites to work around rendering quirks in older versions of Internet Explorer.