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  • What are Meta Tags?
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      • apple-itunes-app
      • apple-mobile-web-app-capable (Deprecated)
      • apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style (Deprecated)
      • apple-mobile-web-app-title
      • blazerr (Deprecated)
      • startver (Deprecated)
      • google-site-verification
      • google
      • googlebot (Obsolete)
      • abstract (Obsolete)
      • author
      • bitcoin
      • canonical
      • classification (Obsolete)
      • copyright
      • distribution
      • format-detection
      • keywords (Obsolete)
      • language
      • license
      • license:uri
      • no-email-collection (Obsolete)
      • subject (Obsolete)
      • summary (Obsolete)
      • topic (Obsolete)
      • Og
      • Twittercard
      • Twittercreator
      • Twittersite
      • Alternate(lang)
      • Description
      • Revised
      • Revisit
      • Revisit After
      • Robots
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Meta Tags
Miscellaneous
language

MetaExtension language

This tag is used to declare the language of the website. It is not necessary and should generally not be used. Use <html lang="en"> instead, to declare your websites language.

Search enginges like Google automatically detect your default language.

Read more about it on Googles Developer Blog (opens in a new tab).

Usage

<meta name="language" content="en">

Also refer to alternate(lang).

keywords (Obsolete)license

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