HTML <meta> tag

Meta data is an information about data and the <meta> tag provides meta data about  the HTML documents. Meta data will not be displayed on your web age ,but these codes will be  machine passable.Meta elements are typically used to specify page describe keywords and author of the document, last modified and other meta data.

The <meta> tag always goes inside the <head> element and the meta data can be used by browsers(how to display content or reloaded page),search engines(keywords) or other web services . 

                                                           Ex:-

<head>

<meta name ="description content "free web tutorials");

<meta name - "keyword"

content="HTML,CSS,XML,JavaScript "/>

<meta name="author" content "Hege Refines"/>

<meta http-equal = "Content-type"

content="text/html; charset = ISO - 8859 - 1" />

</head>

Just type and get the result.