Sets or retrieves meta-information to associate with httpEquiv or name.
Syntax
| HTML | <META CONTENT
= vContent... >
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| Scripting | [ vContent = ] META.content |
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Possible Values
| vContent | String that
specifies or receives one of the following values.| description | Meta-information. | | refresh | Integer consisting of the number of seconds to elapse before the document is refreshed. This value requires the httpEquiv to be set with the refresh value. | | url | Location that is loaded when the document is refreshed. This value requires the httpEquiv to be set with the refresh value. | | mimetype | MIME type used for the charset value. | | charset | Character set of the document. This value requires the mimetype value to be set with a valid MIME type, and the httpEquiv to be set with the refresh value. | | noopen | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and later. Hides the Open or Run button on the File Download dialog box. This value requires the name attribute to be set with the DownloadOptions value. | | nosave | Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 and later. Hides the Save button on the File Download dialog box. This value requires the name attribute to be set with the DownloadOptions value. |
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The property is read/write.
The property has no default value.
Expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s), as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties.
Remarks
Developers using the httpEquiv and content attributes to refresh web pages from alternate URL's should treat the value of content as untrusted data. For more information, please see Security Considerations: Dynamic HTML.
Examples
This example causes the browser to reload the document every two seconds.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT=2>
This example sets the character set for the document.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type"
CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=Windows-1251">
This example disables theme support for the document.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="MSTHEMECOMPATIBLE" CONTENT="no">
Standards Information
This property is defined in
HTML 3.2 
and
is defined in
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 .
Applies To