Conveys hidden information about the document to the server and the client.
Members Table
The following table lists the members exposed by the
meta
object.
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| Attribute | Property | Description |
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| charset |
Sets or retrieves the character set used to encode the object. | | clientHeight |
Retrieves the height of the object including padding, but not including margin, border, or scroll bar. | | clientLeft |
Retrieves the distance between the offsetLeft property and the true left side of the client area. | | clientTop |
Retrieves the distance between the offsetTop property and the true top of the client area. | | clientWidth |
Retrieves the width of the object including padding, but not including margin, border, or scroll bar. | | CONTENT | content |
Sets or retrieves meta-information to associate with httpEquiv or name. | | HTTP-EQUIV | httpEquiv |
Sets or retrieves information used to bind the META tag's content to an HTTP response header. | | isTextEdit |
Retrieves whether a TextRange object can be created using the object. | | NAME | name |
Sets or retrieves the value specified in the CONTENT attribute of the meta object. | | parentTextEdit |
Retrieves the container object in the document hierarchy that can be used to create a TextRange containing the original object. | | SCHEME | scheme |
Sets or retrieves a scheme to be used in interpreting the value of a property specified for the object. | | scrollHeight |
Retrieves the scrolling height of the object. | | scrollLeft |
Sets or retrieves the distance between the left edge of the object and the leftmost portion of the content currently visible in the window. | | scrollTop |
Sets or retrieves the distance between the top of the object and the topmost portion of the content currently visible in the window. | | scrollWidth |
Retrieves the scrolling width of the object. | | sourceIndex |
Retrieves the ordinal position of the object, in source order, as the object appears in the document's all collection. | | tagName |
Retrieves the tag name of the object. |
| Event | Description |
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| onlayoutcomplete |
Fires when the print or print preview layout process finishes filling the current LayoutRect object with content from the source document. |
| Method | Description |
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| contains |
Checks whether the given element is contained within the object. | | dragDrop |
Initiates a drag event. | | getAttribute |
Retrieves the value of the specified attribute. | | removeAttribute |
Removes the given attribute from the object. | | setAttribute |
Sets the value of the specified attribute. |
| Style attribute | Style property | Description |
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| background-position-x | backgroundPositionX |
Sets or retrieves the x-coordinate of the backgroundPosition property. | | background-position-y | backgroundPositionY |
Sets or retrieves the y-coordinate of the backgroundPosition property. | | layout-grid | layoutGrid |
Sets or retrieves the composite document grid properties that specify the layout of text characters. | | layout-grid-mode | layoutGridMode |
Sets or retrieves whether the text layout grid uses two dimensions. | | pixelBottom |
Sets or retrieves the bottom position of the object. | | pixelHeight |
Sets or retrieves the height of the object. | | pixelLeft |
Sets or retrieves the left position of the object. | | pixelRight |
Sets or retrieves the right position of the object. | | pixelTop |
Sets or retrieves the top position of the object. | | pixelWidth |
Sets or retrieves the width of the object. | | posBottom |
Sets or retrieves the bottom position of the object in the units specified by the bottom attribute. | | posHeight |
Sets or retrieves the height of the object in the units specified by the height attribute. | | posLeft |
Sets or retrieves the left position of the object in the units specified by the left attribute. | | posRight |
Sets or retrieves the right position of the object in the units specified by the right attribute. | | posTop |
Sets or retrieves the top position of the object in the units specified by the top attribute. | | posWidth |
Sets or retrieves the width of the object in the units specified by the width attribute. |
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Remarks
The META element also embeds document information that some search engines use to index and categorize documents on the World Wide Web.
This element can be used only within the HEAD element.
This element is not rendered.
This element does not require a closing tag.
Example
This example disables theming support for the document.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="MSTHEMECOMPATIBLE" CONTENT="no">
Standards Information
This object is defined in
HTML 3.2 
.