Meta Element

[cyrus]

What is Meta element in HTML? I also wanted to know the purpose of the Meta element in HTML. Kindly give a detailed idea on this.

[Ralph]

META is a general element for document meta-information -- that is, for information about the document that cannot be expressed by LINK, BASE or the other HEAD elements.

[Sandhya.Kishannag]

Meta elements are the HTML or XHTML element used to provide structured metadata about a Web page.Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes.

The purpose of meta element is either to emulate the use of the HTTP response header, or to embed additional metadata within the HTML document.

[goodmark]

Meta elements are the HTML or XHTML element used to provide structured metadata about a Web page.Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes.

The purpose of meta element is either to emulate the use of the HTTP response header, or to embed additional metadata within the HTML document.

This is actually the extent of what I understand about the use of Meta elements. Can you direct me to examples of meta tags for keywords, title, etc.? I'm not quite sure how to form these for web pages.