1. THE META TAG
by Janet Thompson

2. What is a meta tag?
1. The meta tag is a tag that is used in the head element
of an HTML file;

3. What is a meta tag?
2. It is self-contained and is not an opening/closing tag; and
YES <meta charset=“utf-8”>
NO <meta> charset=“utf-8”</meta>

4. What is a meta tag?
3. It’s browser friendly and can basically be used in most
browsers such as Google Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.

5. What does a meta tag do?
1. A meta tag can indicate what type of character encoding
is being used, such as utf-8; and

6. What does a meta tag do?
2. It also allow a web page to become searchable with the
use of key words. For example, the word “cat”.

7. This is what a meta tag looks like:
<meta charset=“utf-8”>

8. A meta tag can also look like this:
<meta name=“description” content=“Cat”>

9. If you don’t want your page to be
searchable, you can try this:
<meta name=“robots” content=“noindex,nofollow”>

10. A few attributes that can be used with
a meta tag:
• charset – the type of character encoding.
• content – the key words you want searchable.
• name – the type of information provided in the content.

11. Here is an actual search I did on “cat”: