Adding information about the page

It appears you can add more or less what you like: the author of the document, a copyright statement, a publication date or an expiry date for the page.

For example, you can use the <meta> tag to:

• Add the name of the author. For example: <meta name="Author" content="Ann Gilliver">
• Add the expiry date of the document. For example: <meta name="Expires" content="31 December 2000">
• Specify the default script language that you want to use. HTML does not use a specific script language so you need to specify the one you want to use
• Specify the default style sheet. For example: <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">. It is likely that this will be CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). There could be other specialised ones; but I don’t know anything about them
• Specify the character encoding that you want to use. All of the HTML is encoded using the special character set that you specify. For example: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">. The character set is sometimes called Latin-1 and works for most western European languages. It also includes some control, special and graphical characters. There are other sets that support Cyrillic and Japanese characters and so on. For more information see, Character sets.
• Tell the browser that it should not cache the page. Note: some browsers ignore this command. For example: <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">