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Re: What is "META content name=GENERATOR" for? From David A on 7 Feb '02 replying to What is "META content name=GENERATOR" for? posted by Henry The first tells the browser what character set to use for displaying text. This is only needed if you want to show foreign character sets like Japanese or something. The second is a BS tag that most wysiwyg editors put in to promote their product. It just tells what software was used to create the page. >Hi, >Can anyone explain to me the meaning and usage of the following >tags please: > ><META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> ><META content="MSHTML 5.00.2920.0" name=GENERATOR> > >Thanks a lot.

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>The first tells the browser what character set to use for >displaying text. This is only needed if you want to show foreign >character sets like Japanese or something. > >The second is a BS tag that most wysiwyg editors put in to >promote their product. It just tells what software was used to >create the page. > >>Hi, >>Can anyone explain to me the meaning and usage of the following >>tags please: >> >><META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> >><META content="MSHTML 5.00.2920.0" name=GENERATOR> >> >>Thanks a lot.
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