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Whats the point in using metadata in HTML?

Time:05-02

I started HTML again yesterday and I'm confused. Why are we supposed to use meta tags if it's not on the site?

CodePudding user response:

There's a multitude of <meta /> tag types serving different purposes, but in essence there's two broad categories:

Search engine and other crawlers

  • May use <meta name="description" content="Some description"> for the search results page (This image

    The rest of the metatags and what they do/did are in the above answer.

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