meta charset viewport author and description
Add essential meta tags for rendering and discoverability.
The meta Element
The <meta> element provides metadata about the page. It is a void element — no closing tag:
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<meta name="description" content="Learn HTML5 from scratch.">
<meta name="author" content="Jane Smith">
</head>meta charset
Declares the character encoding:
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<!-- Must be:
- Inside <head>
- Within the first 1024 bytes of the file
- Best: the first tag inside <head>
- Always use UTF-8 for web pages
-->All lessons in this course
- title and its Role in SEO
- meta charset viewport author and description
- Canonical URLs and robots meta
- Favicon and Apple Touch Icon