<META http-equiv content-type>

Description:

Indicates the type of data sent to the browser. It is used by browsers to know what to do with the data that they receive.

Attributes:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="type; charset">
Type indicates the type of content within the document. This may have the following values:

text/html Cntains HTML commands

charset indicates that character set.

Examples:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

This example sets the content to "text/html and the character set to windows-1252.