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[sloved]what does this meta tag command do...

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:03 pm
by sakaveli
would really like to know what this is tellin the browser to do?

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:16 pm
by Ixplodestuff8
It tells it what type of document it is, in this case, html. so the browser will parse it as html, and use the charset listed, the charset is what chars the document can use. (so you might need a different one to make your page in chineese or russian since they use different letters, but I dunno much about charsets so iso-8859-1 might have those letters in it)

If it said text/plain instead of text/html for example, it wouldn't parse the html, and the browser would just display the file so you'd see things like the <html> tags

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:56 pm
by JAM
Moved this to Client Side, if you dont mind.

For more information; http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters ... hp/2167931

For even more information, try Google it. There are alot of pages that explains why, when, where etc. about these tags. Have fun! ;)

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:17 pm
by sakaveli
thanks guys!