What is Meta Charset In HTML?? And What Does it Do?

Question

Im A beginner, Learning web development, and just wanna ask what does The Meta tag Do?

Answer 1

Hi Ray,

Specifically, meta charset="utf-8" tells the browser to use a particular text encoding that permits the greatest variety of characters, which allows the greatest amount of spoken languages. You definitely want this line of code in every page. It enables your web page to be translated into other spoken languages.

Generally speaking each meta tag has it's own purpose and are important in the html of all pages in your site.

Answer 2

Metadata is basically documentation about the webpage. With the exception of a few tags such as viewport, it has no impact on the look and feel of the page but rather is a source of information for subsequent maintenance. Meta elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata. The metadata can also be used by browsers (how to display content or reload page), search engines (keywords), or other web services.