Metadata means information about data. The <meta> tag in HTML provides information about HTML Document or in simple words, it provides important information about a document. Adding the meta tag while making the webpage or website, is a good practice because search engines like Google search for this meta tag in order to understand the information provided by the website.

A web document can include one or more meta tags depending on information, but in general, it doesn’t affect the physical appearance of the document.

Syntax:

<meta attribute-name = “ value ”>

Attributes:

name: This attribute is used to define the name of the property.
http-equiv: This attribute is used to get the HTTP response message header.
content: This attribute is used to specify properties value.
charset: This attribute is used to specify a character encoding for an HTML file.

Supported Browser:

Google Chrome 93.0
Internet Explorer 11.0
Microsoft Edge 93.0
Mozilla 92.0
Opera 78.0
Safari 14.1