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CSS Treehouse Club: CSS My First Web Page New HTML Features

Che Hei Cheung
Che Hei Cheung
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Posted by Che Hei Cheung
Che Hei Cheung
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What is meta tags?

I have no ideas about what meta tag is. Why it has no closing tag?

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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! A meta tag is a tag that contains information about the document to be displayed. Among other things the encoding of the page is listed here. There are several tags in HTML that are considered to be "self-closing". This means that the ending of the tag simply looks like this: />.

Try and think of a meta tag like the first few pages of a book. Those first few pages generally contain information about the author, publisher, thanks to family and friends etc, but have little to no bearing on the story contained in the book.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

premnath .p
premnath .p
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premnath .p
premnath .p
3,335 Points

Meta tag provide information to browser software or host server how to render the information to users