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Things you can do with meta data

Meta data covers a multitude of sins. You add it with the <meta> tag and it provides information about an HTML page to browsers, search engines and other applications. Meta data does not format a page.

For example, you can add information such as the author's name or an expiry date to your page, specify keywords for Web search engines to use for indexing, add details about the script language, style sheet and character encoding, or add a label.

You can also use the <meta> tag to automatically load a new page in a specified time or to reload a page regularly.