# meta

Specifies general high-level information about a document.

## Platform Support

IE | Netscape | Mozilla | Opera | Safari
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
2.0+ | 1.0+ | 1.0+ | 4.0+ | 1.0+

## Example

This example shows the <head>&</head>& element for a company home page, including a meta tag, title, and a link to a stylesheet:

    <head>
    	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    	<title>Aptana Home Page</title>
    	<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />
    &/head>

## Remarks

A <meta /> must be enclosed within the <head></head> element. You may have multiple <meta /> tags in the <head></head> element.

## Attribute Detail

Attribute | IE | Netscape | Mozilla | Opera | Safari
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
content [Document-contents-description] High-level meta description of the contents of the document. | 2.0+ | 1.1+ | 1.0+ | 4.0+ | 1.0+
dir Direction of the element text. | 2.0+ | 1.0+ | 1.0+ | 4.0+ | 1.0+
http-equiv [http-header]. Example values: "refresh", "PICS-Label", etc. Sets an HTTP response header for the value in the content attribute. | 2.0+ | 1.0+ | 1.0+ | 4.0+ | 1.0+
id [element-id] Unique identifier for the element. | 2.0+ | 1.0+ | 1.0+ | 4.0+ | 1.0+
lang [language-code]. Example values: "en" (English), "fr" (French), "es" (Spanish), etc. Language code for the content of the element. | 2.0+ | 1.0+ | 1.0+ | 4.0+ | 1.0+
name [element-name] Unique name identifier for the element. | 2.0+ | 1.0+ | 1.0+ | 4.0+ | 1.0+
scheme [scheme-name] Specifies the scheme for the value of the content attribute. | 2.0+ | 1.1+ | 1.0+ | 4.0+ | 1.0+

## Event Detail

Event | IE | Netscape | Mozilla | Opera | Safari
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
onlayoutcomplete Fires when Print or Print Preview finishes laying out the content in a LayoutRect with the source data. | 4.0+ | no | no | no | no

## Availability

W3C HTML 4.01

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