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HTML <link> charset Attribute

HTML link Tag Reference HTML <link> tag

Example

The charset attribute indicates that the linked document is written in Japanese:

Browser Support

Note: The charset attribute is not supported in any of the major browsers.

Definition and Usage

The <link> charset attribute is not supported in HTML5.

The charset attribute specifies the character encoding of the linked document.

The default character-set for modern browsers is ISO-8859-1.

Syntax

Attribute Values

Value	Description
character_set	The character encoding of the linked document. Common values: UTF-8 - Character encoding for Unicode ISO-8859-1 - Character encoding for the Latin alphabet In theory, any character encoding can be used, but no browser understands all of them. The more widely a character encoding is used, the better the chance that a browser will understand it. To view all available character encodings, go to our Character sets reference.

Value

Description

character_set

The character encoding of the linked document.

Common values:

UTF-8 - Character encoding for Unicode
ISO-8859-1 - Character encoding for the Latin alphabet

In theory, any character encoding can be used, but no browser understands all of them. The more widely a character encoding is used, the better the chance that a browser will understand it.

To view all available character encodings, go to our Character sets reference.

HTML <link> tag