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HTML Standard attribute: charset

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The HTML charset attribute specifies the character encoding to use. It applies to <meta> and <script> elements.

 

Common values for this attribute include:

 

-        UTF-8: the character encoding for Unicode

-        ISO-8859-1: the character encoding for the Latin alphabet

 

It can be overridden for a specific element by setting the lang attribute of that element. The charset attribute is new in HTML 5 and replaces the need to set the content type via HTML such as: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> (although using the http-equiv approach is still allowed).

 

Valid attribute values (when used with <meta> and <script> elements) include:

 

Value

Description

character_set

The character encoding for the document

 


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