Lesson 1.4

 Using <META> tag

The Header section also contains the META element. This element    provides information on the web page. This would include the authors names, the name of the software in which the page was written, the company name, contact information and so on
The META element uses a property / value combination.
For example, to indicate Graham Browne as the Author, the following META element is used:
<META   name = “Author” content = “Graham Browne” >
The author of the document is “Graham Browne”
The http-equip attribute can be used in place of the name attribute. HTTP servers use the attribute to generate an HTTP response header.
A   response header is a header that is passed to the browser to identify data. If  the browser  known what the header  then  the browser  can  take  special  action for  that header.
For example, <META http-equiv =”Expires content=”Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:25:27
GMT “> will generate an HTTP response header as follows:
Expires:  Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:25:27 GMT
So, if the document has been cached, HTTP will know when to retrieve a fresh copy of the associated document.


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