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What is a meta tag?

I didn't quite understand what it means of "meta tag doesn't have a closing tag" I speak Chinese so I didn't quite get "meta tag" and "closing tag(I suppose it is sth like this :">")", can you give me a rather clear definition about "meta tag"? Thank you!

1 Answer

meta is a collection of data or information of our page generally it is used mostly in seo for assigning keyword of page...

still not clear check our here http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp

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Thank you! The site you post is really useful! now I understand that "closing tag" means something like "</meta>"