What does META tag do in web design?

Question

can you please explain, i am a noob!!!

thanks

Answer 1

Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web page. Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of an HTML or XHTML document. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes.

The meta element has four valid attributes: content, http-equiv, name and scheme. Of these, only content is a required attribute.

Metadata is data about data.

Answer 2

It can hold keywords and your site description for web crawlers and search engines

Answer 3

A meta tag is a tag (that is, a coding statement) in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that describes the contents of a Web page.