Example
Use the name attribute to define a description, keywords, and the author of an HTML document:
<head>
<meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials">
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS,JavaScript">
<meta name="author" content="Hege Refsnes">
</head>
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The name attribute specifies the name for the metadata.
The name attribute specifies a name for the information/value of the content attribute.
Note: If the http-equiv attribute is set, the name attribute should not be set.
Browser Support
| Attribute | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5
NONE.
Syntax
<meta name="value">
Attribute Values
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| application-name | Specifies the name of the Web application that the page represents |
| author | Specifies the name of the author of the document. Example: <meta name="author" content="Hege Refsnes"> |
| description | Specifies a description of the page. Search engines can pick up this description to show with the results of searches. Example: <meta name="description" content="Free web tutorials"> |
| generator | Specifies one of the software packages used to generate the document
(not used on hand-authored pages) Example: <meta name="generator" content="FrontPage 4.0"> |
| keywords | Specifies a comma-separated list of keywords - relevant to the page
(Informs search engines what the page is about). Tip: Always specify keywords (needed by search engines to catalogize the page). Example: <meta name="keywords" content="HTML, meta tag, tag reference"> |