Baseline Widely available
The HTMLMetaElement interface contains descriptive metadata about a document provided in HTML as <meta> elements. This interface inherits all of the properties and methods described in the HTMLElement interface.
Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement.
<meta#charset>
The character encoding for a HTML document.
HTMLMetaElement.content
The 'value' part of the name-value pairs of the document metadata.
HTMLMetaElement.httpEquiv
The name of the pragma directive, the HTTP response header, for a document.
HTMLMetaElement.media
The media context for a theme-color metadata property.
HTMLMetaElement.name
The 'name' part of the name-value pairs defining the named metadata of a document.
HTMLMetaElement.scheme Deprecated
Defines the scheme of the value in the HTMLMetaElement.content attribute. This is deprecated and should not be used on new web pages.
No specific method; inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement.
The following two examples show a general approach to using the HTMLMetaElement interface. For specific examples, see the pages for the individual properties as described in the Instance properties section above.
The following example creates a new <meta> element with a name attribute set to description. The content attribute sets a description of the document and is appended to the document <head>:
const meta = document.createElement("meta");
meta.name = "description";
meta.content =
"The <meta> element can be used to provide document metadata in terms of name-value pairs, with the name attribute giving the metadata name, and the content attribute giving the value.";
document.head.appendChild(meta);
The following example shows how to create a new <meta> element with a name attribute set to viewport. The content attribute sets the viewport size and is appended to the document <head>:
const meta = document.createElement("meta");
meta.name = "viewport";
meta.content = "width=device-width, initial-scale=1";
document.head.appendChild(meta);
For more information on setting the viewport, see Viewport basics.
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HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
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