Document Metadata Flashcards
Document Metadata
Metadata contains information about the page. This includes information about styles, scripts and data to help software (search engines, browsers, etc.) use and render the page. Metadata for styles and scripts may be defined in the page or link to another file that has the information.
base
The HTML element specifies the base URL to use for all relative URLs in a document. There can be only one element in a document.
head
The HTML element contains machine-readable information (metadata) about the document, like its title, scripts, and style sheets.
link
The HTML element specifies relationships between the current document and an external resource. This element is most commonly used to link to CSS, but is also used to establish site icons (both “favicon” style icons and icons for the home screen and apps on mobile devices) among other things.
meta
The HTML element represents Metadata that cannot be represented by other HTML meta-related elements, like base, link, script, style or title.
style
The HTML element contains style information for a document, or part of a document. It contains CSS, which is applied to the contents of the document containing the element.
title
he HTML element defines the document’s title that is shown in a Browser’s title bar or a page’s tab. It only contains text; tags within the element are ignored.
