Atributo de nombre HTML <meta>

❮ Etiqueta HTML <meta>

Ejemplo

Utilice el atributo de nombre para definir una descripción, palabras clave y el autor de un documento HTML. También defina la ventana gráfica para controlar las dimensiones de la página y la escala para diferentes dispositivos:

<head>
  <meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials">
  <meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS,JavaScript">
  <meta name="author" content="John Doe">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>

El nameatributo especifica el nombre de los metadatos.

El nameatributo especifica un nombre para la información/valor del contentatributo.

Nota: Si el http-equivatributo está establecido, el nameatributo no debe establecerse.

HTML5 introdujo un método para permitir que los diseñadores web tomen el control de la ventana gráfica (el área visible del usuario de una página web), a través de la <meta>etiqueta (consulte el ejemplo "Configuración de la ventana gráfica" a continuación).


Compatibilidad con navegador

Attribute
name Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Sintaxis

<meta name="value">

Valores de atributos

Value Description
application-name Specifies the name of the Web application that the page represents
author Specifies the name of the author of the document. Example:
<meta name="author" content="John Doe">
description Specifies a description of the page. Search engines can pick up this description to show with the results of searches. Example:
<meta name="description" content="Free web tutorials">
generator Specifies one of the software packages used to generate the document (not used on hand-authored pages). Example:
<meta name="generator" content="FrontPage 4.0">
keywords Specifies a comma-separated list of keywords - relevant to the page (Informs search engines what the page is about).

Tip: Always specify keywords (needed by search engines to catalogize the page). Example:
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, meta tag, tag reference">
viewport Controls the viewport (the user's visible area of a web page).

The viewport varies with the device, and will be smaller on a mobile phone than on a computer screen.

You should include the following <meta> viewport element in all your web pages:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

A <meta> viewport element gives the browser instructions on how to control the page's dimensions and scaling.

The width=device-width part sets the width of the page to follow the screen-width of the device (which will vary depending on the device).

The initial-scale=1.0 part sets the initial zoom level when the page is first loaded by the browser.

Here is an example of a web page without the viewport meta tag, and the same web page with the viewport meta tag:

Tip: If you are browsing this page with a phone or a tablet, you can click on the two links below to see the difference.


You can read more about the viewport in our Responsive Web Design - The Viewport Tutorial.


❮ Etiqueta HTML <meta>