HTML and meta-charset properties

HTML meta charset property HTML .lt;meta.gt; tags

The charset property in the label is used to specify which character encoding should be used in HTML documents, as detailed in the following method:

Specify the character encoding of HTML documents:

<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>

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Browser support

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The charset property is supported by all major browsers.

Definitions and usages

The charset property specifies the character encoding of the HTML document.

Tip: The charset property can be overridten by the lang property on any element.

The difference between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

The charset property is a new property in HTML5 and has been replaced with: .lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content=text/html; charset=UTF-8">

The http-equiv property is still allowed to specify character sets, but new methods can reduce the amount of code.

Grammar

<meta charset="character_set">

The property value

value describe
character_set Specifies the character encoding of the HTML document.

Common value:

  • UTF-8 - Unicode Character Coding
  • ISO-8859-1 - Character code of the Latin alphabet

In theory, any character encoding can be used, but not all browsers can understand them.The wider the range of use of a character coding, the more you can understand it.

For all available character encodings, please visit Iana character set 。

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