HTML <meta> name Attribute
HTML <meta> tag
Example
Use the name attribute to define a description, keywords, and the author of an HTML document:
<head>
<meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials" />
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS,XML,JavaScript" />
<meta name="author" content="Hege Refsnes" />
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Definition and Usage
The name attribute provides a name for the information in the content attribute.
The value of the name attribute depends on the value of the content attribute.
If the http-equiv attribute is set, the name attribute should not be set.
Browser Support

The name attribute is supported in all major browsers.
Syntax
Attribute Values
| Value |
Description |
| author |
Defines the author of the document |
| copyright |
Defines copyright information of the document |
| description |
Defines a description of the document |
| distribution |
Defines the distribution level of the document (like "Global") |
| generator |
Defines the program used to generate the document |
| keywords |
Defines keywords to describe the document |
| progid |
Defines the id of a program used to generate the document |
| rating |
Defines webpage rating |
| resource-type |
Defines the type of the web resource |
| revisit-after |
Defines the expected update rate of the web resource |
| robots |
Defines rules for robots (web crawlers for search engines) |
| others |
You can define your own names in a schema |
HTML <meta> tag
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