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Dean Onizuka
Dean Onizuka
4,753 Points
Posted by Dean Onizuka
Dean Onizuka
4,753 Points

purpose of this meta tag

made simple websites before without the use of a meta tag. can anyone explain to me the purpose of this tag and what it does?

<meta charset="utf-8">

2 Answers

Franklin De Los Santos
Franklin De Los Santos
2,706 Points

meta data is basically information about the data on the page. It isn't displayed but is read by web crawlers or for example search engines like google.

For example:

<meta name="description" content="blog about coding">

Here I'm telling google that the data is a "description" of the site, and the description is "blog about coding".

you can use meta for many things including keywords like below:

<meta name="keywords" content="ruby, ios, python, rails, programming">

So here I'm just telling google about what keywords to index my site by.

Agapito Cruz
Agapito Cruz
21,486 Points
Agapito Cruz
Agapito Cruz
21,486 Points

Hello Dean,

The meta tag is for non-user information. For instance it can contain information for use by the browser, like the title of the webpage, or search engines, like keywords to describe the page.

-Agapito