What is <meta> tag?

Experience Level: Junior
Tags: HTML

Answer

The <meta> tag contains meta data about the HTML document. They are not displayed on the web page.

Meta data is data that provides information about other data:

  • descriptive metadata
  • structural metadata
  • administrative metadata
  • reference metadata 
  • statistical metadata
Example
<html>
<head>
    <meta name="description" content="Courses tests" />
</head>
<body>
    ...
</body>
</html>

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