Meta Tags - Meta name or Meta Http -Equiv

Use of meta name or META HTTP-EQUIV

[QuentinH]

Apologises if this question has already been answered elsewhere. I had a look at some of the Meta Tag postings and could not see an answer to this.

Does any one know if for the keywords and description meta tag you can use the meta name or Meta Http-equiv tag format? So e.g. for keyword oranges:

<meta name="keywords" content="Oranges”>

Or

<META HTTP-EQUIV="keyword" CONTENT="Oranges”>

If so what difference will it make as to which format is used?

If anyone can help me on this it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Quentin

[encyclo]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld QuentinH! The

http-equiv

attribute is used for meta elements which are supposed to complement HTTP headers - for example for a Content-Type definition:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

For meta elements such as keywords or description, then you should use the

name

attribute instead:

<meta name="keywords" content="word1, word2, word3">

[QuentinH]

Sorry not log in for a few days. Thanks for your help with that.

Kind regards

Quentin