What are meta tags in HTML?

Meta tags give information (metadata) about the page to browsers and search engines. They go inside the <head> and are not shown on the page.

<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta name="description" content="Learn HTML step by step.">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

The description is often used by search engines under the page title. The old keywords meta tag is ignored by Google. See Meta Tag in HTML.

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