In the previous pages as described that an html file consists on
<
!DOCTYPE html
>
,<
html
>
,<
head
>
,<
body
>
these important tags.
These tags are must in an html file.Here in this tutorial we will discuss about head very briefly.
Basic syntax
<
!DOCTYPE html
>
<
html
>
<
head
>
<
title
>
<
/title
>
<
/head
>
<
body
>
<
/body
>
<
/html
>
Use of head tag in html
There are many meta tags and linking of external files are done in between head tag. For example as:following tags are used in between head tag are described bellow.
Meta tags in head
Use of meta data in between head tag are given with there source code. These meta are necessary for search engine optimization of a website.
<
meta
charset
="
UTF-8
"
>
<
meta
name
="
description
"
content
="
Free Webtags lectures and courses
"
>
<
meta
name
="
keywords
"
content
="
HTML,CSS,XML,JavaScript,jquery,php,mysqli
"
>
<
meta
name
="
author
"
content
="
Imran Hussain
"
>
Explanation of meta tags
<
meta
charset
="
UTF-8
"
>
meta tag "charset" is used to include different character set for example: ASCII, ANSI, ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, etc. ISO-8859-1 supports 256 different character codes. ASCII defined 128 different alphanumeric characters. This is used to specify the character encoding.
<
meta
name
="
description
"
content
="
Free Webtags lectures
"
>
As in above source code the meta description is used to provides a brief summary of a web page. When you search some thing then search engine show some description after the title this is because of description tag which can influence click-through rates.
<
meta
name
="
keywords
"
content
="
HTML,CSS,XML,JavaScript,jquery,php,mysqli
"
>
As in above source code the meta keywords tag is inserted into your web pages to provide search engines with information about your pages that by default not shown.This tag is very important in search engine activities.
<
meta
name
="
author
"
content
="
Imran Hussain
"
>
As in above source code the author meta tag is used. If used this tag, it is easy to find the right person who is responsible for a web page or who is the editor of this page.
Linking external files
There are linking of external file syntax used in head tag is given.
<
link
rel
="
stylesheet
"
href
="
target.css
"
>
<
script
src
="
target.js
"
>
<
/script
>
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