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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">&lt;META&gt;</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">all</span> IE <span class="emphasis">all</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">all</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">&lt;META&gt;</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">HTML End Tag: Forbidden&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>A <span class="literal">meta</span> element conveys hidden information about
the document. Some browsers respond to this element to derive header
information that may be important to the document but is not sent by
the server in response to the request for the document. The element
is also used to embed document information that some search engines
use for indexing and categorizing documents on the World Wide Web.
</p><p>More than one <span class="literal">meta</span> element may be included in a
document, and all <span class="literal">meta</span> elements belong nested
inside the <span class="literal">head</span> element. The specific purpose of
each <span class="literal">meta</span> element is defined by its attributes.
Typically, a <span class="literal">meta</span> element reduces to a name/value
pair that is of use to either the server or the client. For example,
most browsers recognize attribute settings that force the page to
reload (or redirect to another page) after a timed delay. This would
be useful in a page whose content is updated minute-by-minute,
because the browser keeps reloading the latest page as often as
indicated in the <span class="literal">meta</span> element.
</p><p>Several other elements and attributes in HTML 4 contain the same kind
of metadata that might otherwise be located in
<span class="literal">meta</span> elements. Use the avenue that is best suited
to your intended server and browser environments. See also the
<span class="literal">address</span>, <span class="literal">del</span>,
<span class="literal">ins</span>, <span class="literal">link</span>, and
<span class="literal">title</span> elements, as well as the
<span class="literal">profile</span> attribute of the <span class="literal">head</span>
element.
</p><p>Much mythology surrounds <span class="literal">meta</span> element usage. Some
attribute values affect only some browsers (controlling the browser
cache, for example), and not all search engine bots respond to
<span class="literal">meta</span> tag attribute values the same way (if at
all). At the same time, commonly-used powers, such as
<span class="literal">refresh</span>, are frowned upon by the standards. There
are no mandated standards for acceptable values, but the W3C
validators for HTML 4 and XHTML point toward acceptance of the
character set value shown in the example below.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;HEAD profile="http://www.giantco.com/profiles/common"&gt;
    &lt;META name="Author" content="Jane Smith"&gt;
    &lt;META name="keywords" content="benefits,insurance,plan"&gt;
    &lt;META http-equiv="refresh"
    content="1;URL=http://www.giantco.com/truindex.html"&gt;
    &lt;META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
    charset=ISO-8859-5"&gt;
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Element-Specific Attributes</span></td>
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						<table border="1"><tbody><tr><td><span class="literal">content</span></td><td><span class="literal">http-equiv</span></td><td><span class="literal">name</span></td><td><span class="literal">scheme</span></td>
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					<td><p>None.</p>
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">content</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">all</span> IE <span class="emphasis">all</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">all</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">content="<span class="replaceable">valueString</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Required&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>The equivalent of the value of a name/value pair. The attribute is
usually accompanied by either a <span class="literal">name</span> or
<span class="literal">http-equiv</span> attribute, either of which act as the
name portion of the name/value pair. Specific values of the
<span class="literal">content</span> attribute vary with the value of the
<span class="literal">name</span> or <span class="literal">http-equiv</span> attribute.
Sometimes, the <span class="literal">content</span> attribute value contains
multiple values. In such cases, the values are delimited by commas,
semicolons, or whatever delimiter the browser expects for that
content. Some of these values may be name/value pairs in their own
right, such as the content for a refresh <span class="literal">meta</span>
element. The first value is a number representing the number of
seconds delay before loading another document; the second value
indicates a URL of the document to load after the delay expires.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;META http-equiv="refresh"
content="2;URL=http://www.giantco.com/basicindex.html"&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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					<td><p>Any string of characters. The string must be inside a matching pair
of (single or double) quotation marks.
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td><p>None.</p>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById(<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>).content</pre>
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">http-equiv</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">all</span> IE <span class="emphasis">all</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">all</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">http-equiv="<span class="replaceable">identifier</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>When a server sends a document to the client with the HTTP protocol,
a number of HTTP header fields are sent along, primarily as
directives to the client about the content on its way.
<span class="literal">meta</span> elements can add to those HTTP headers when
the <span class="literal">http-equiv</span> attribute is assigned to a
document. Browsers convert the <span class="literal">http-equiv</span> and
<span class="literal">content</span> attribute values into the HTTP response
header format of <span class="literal">"name:</span> <span class="literal">value"</span>
and treat them as if they came directly from the server.
</p><p>Web standards define a long list of HTTP headers (see
<span class="emphasis">Webmaster in a Nutshell</span> by Stephen Spainhour and
Valerie Quercia, published by O'Reilly &amp;
Associates), but some of the more common values are shown in the
following examples. Not all browsers respond to all header types, and
some browsers respond to browser-specific headers (e.g., the IE 6
<span class="literal">MSTHEMECOMPATIBLE</span> header). You can have either the
<span class="literal">http-equiv</span> or <span class="literal">name</span> attribute in
a <span class="literal">meta</span> element, but not both.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;META http-equiv="refresh"
content="1,http://www.giantco.com/truindex.html"&gt;
&lt;META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-5"&gt;
&lt;META http-equiv="expires" content="Sun, 15 Jan 1998 17:38:00 GMT"&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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					<td><p>Any string identifier.</p>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td><p>None.</p>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById(<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>).httpEquiv</pre>
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						<tr><td valign="top" class="name">lang</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">3</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">4</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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							<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">lang="<span class="replaceable">languageCode</span>"</p>
							</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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							<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>The language being used for the element's attribute
		values and content. A browser can use this information to assist in
		proper rendering of content with respect to details such as treatment
		of ligatures (when supported by a particular font or required by a
		written language), quotation marks, and hyphenation. Other
		applications and search engines might use this information to aid the
		selection of spell-checking dictionaries and the creation of indices.
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							<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;SPAN lang="de"&gt;Deutsche Bundesbahn&lt;/SPAN&gt;</pre>
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							<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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							<td><p>Case-insensitive language code.</p>
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							<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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							<td><p>Browser default.</p>
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							<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById(<span class="replaceable">elementID).</span>lang</pre>
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		<div id="name">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">name</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">all</span> IE <span class="emphasis">all</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">all</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">name="<span class="replaceable">identifier</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>An identifier for the name/value pair that constitutes the
<span class="literal">meta</span> element. Typically, the attribute value is a
plain-language term that denotes the purpose of the
<span class="literal">meta</span> element, such as <span class="literal">"author"</span>
or <span class="literal">"keywords"</span>. You can assign a value to either
the <span class="literal">name</span> or <span class="literal">http-equiv</span>
attribute, but not both, in the same <span class="literal">meta</span> element.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;META name="Author" content="Jane Smith"&gt;
&lt;META name="keywords" content="benefits,insurance,plan"&gt;</pre>
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					<td><p>Any string identifier.</p>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td><p>None.</p>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById(<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>).name</pre>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">scheme="<span class="replaceable">identifier</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>Provides one more organizational layer to metadata supplied with a
document. For example, a university campus with several libraries
might generate documents associated with each of the libraries.
Assuming that a browser is equipped to interpret metadata about this,
one approach at assembling the tags is to create a separate
<span class="literal">name</span> attribute value for each library:
<span class="literal">name="law"</span>, <span class="literal">name="main"</span>,
<span class="literal">name="engineering"</span>, and so on. But it may also be
necessary to associate these <span class="literal">name</span> values with a
specific university. The <span class="literal">scheme</span> attribute could be
called into service to align the metadata with a particular
university: <span class="literal">scheme="Harvard"</span>. Now, other
university library systems could use the same organization of
<span class="literal">name</span> attributes, but the <span class="literal">scheme</span>
attribute clearly associates a given <span class="literal">meta</span> element
with a specific university and library. Again, this assumes that the
browser is empowered to do something special with this metaknowledge.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;META scheme="Chicago" name="classicalFM" content="98.7"&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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					<td><p>Any string identifier.</p>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td><p>None. </p>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById(<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>).scheme</pre>
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