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This page lists the allowed extension values for the name="" attribute of the <meta> element in HTML5. You may add your own values to this list, which makes them legal HTML5 metadata names. We ask that you try to avoid redundancy; if someone has already defined a name that does roughly what you want, please reuse it. Also, please be sure to include all the items required by the spec including a link to a specification that specifies the keyword as an HTML meta keyword. Note that URL-valued properties must not be registered as meta names but should be registered as rel keywords instead. Also note that changes to this registry may not be reflected in validators in real time.
Registered Extensions
| Keyword | Brief description | Link to specification | Synonyms | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGLSTERMS.act | A specific piece of legislation which requires or drives the creation or provision of the resource. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.aggregationLevel | The level of aggregation of the described resource - an 'item' or a 'collection'. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.availability | How the resource can be obtained or accessed, or contact information. Primarily used for offline resources to provide information on how to obtain physical access to the resource. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.case | A specific piece of case law which requires or drives the creation or provision of the resource. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.category | The generic type of the resource being described - a 'service', 'document' or 'agency'. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.dateLicensed | Date a license was applied or became effective. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.documentType | The form of the described resource where the value of category is‘document’. Document is used in its widest sense and includes resources such as text, images, sound files and software. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.function | The business function to which the resource relates. Functions are the major units of activity which organisations pursue in order to meet the mission and goals of the organisation. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.isBasisFor | A related resource that is a performance, production, derivation, translation or interpretation of the described resource. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.isBasedOn | A related resource of which the described resource is a performance, production, derivation, translation or interpretation. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.jurisdiction | The name of the political/administrative entity covered by the described resource. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.mandate | A specific legal instrument which requires or drives the creation or provision of the resource. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.protectiveMarking | A protective marking applied to the described resource. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.regulation | A specific regulation which requires or drives the creation or provision of the resource. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| AGLSTERMS.serviceType | The form of the described resource where the value of category is ‘service'. | AGLS Terms] | Proposal | |
| alexaverifyid | Used to verify ownership of Alexa Search | Alexa FAQ About this meta attribute Reference | Proposal | |
| tysontcsverid | Used to verify ownership of Website for TCS webmaster tools | Livechat About this meta attribute Reference | Proposal | |
| apple-itunes-app | Promoting Apps with Smart App Banners | Safari Web Content Guide | Proposal | |
| apple-mobile-web-app-capable | Sets whether a web application runs in full-screen mode. | Apple Safari HTML Reference | Could maybe be assumed when application-name is set?
|
Proposal |
| apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style | Sets the style of the status bar for a web application. | Apple Safari HTML Reference | Proposal | |
| apple-mobile-web-app-title | Sets the title of the application when added to the homescreen on iOS6+ | No specification yet | Proposal | |
| baiduspider | Synonym of robots for targeting Baidu only.
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Baidu documentation | Proposal | |
| citeseerxbot | Synonym of robots for targeting CiteSeerX only.
|
CiteSeerX Submit Documents 'If you do not want your documents crawled by CiteSeerX, please use a robots.txt to disallow our crawler named "citeseerxbot"', CiteSeerX Crawler | Proposal | |
| collection | To replace the obsolete dc:collection. A collection is described as a group, an aggregation of topics Used to describe the top-level content of XHTML documents. These appear in your META tags showing a group of subject. Website Taxonomy improve classification for search engine analysis and semantic communication with a description language content.
<meta name="collection" content="MetaExtensions" /> <meta name="subject" content="topics, thesaurus, Meta Tag, header, semantic" /> |
[1] | Proposal | |
| csrf-param | Cross-site request forgery protection parameter for Ruby on Rails | Rails API | Proposal | |
| csrf-token | Cross-site request forgery protection token for Ruby on Rails | Rails API | Proposal | |
| dc.date.issued | Date of publication for Google News. The format of the content is YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD. | Google News documentation | <time pubdate>, dcterms.issued
|
Proposal |
| dc.language | A language of the resource. Recommended best practice is to use a
controlled vocabulary such as RFC 4646 [RFC4646]. |
DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Redundant with the lang attribute on the
|
Proposal |
| dcterms.abstract | A summary of the resource. | [http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-abstract DCMI
Metadata Terms] mapped according to Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.accessRights | Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.accrualMethod | The method by which items are added to a collection. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.accrualPeriodicity | The frequency with which items are added to a collection. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.accrualPolicy | The policy governing the addition of items to a collection. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.alternative | An alternative name for the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.audience | A class of entity for whom the resource is intended or useful. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.available | Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | A bibliographic reference for the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
The HTML element cite
|
Proposal |
| dcterms.collection | An aggregation of resources. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.conformsTo | An established standard to which the described resource conforms. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.contributor | An entity responsible for making contributions to the content of the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.coverage | The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.created | Date of creation of the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.creator | An entity primarily responsible for making the resource. Examples of
a Creator include a person, an organization, or a service. |
DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
In some cases redundant with the HTML built-in keyword author
|
Proposal |
| dcterms.date | A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | Date of acceptance of the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.dateCopyrighted | Date of copyright. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | Date of submission of the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.description | An account of the resource. Description may include but is not
limited to: an abstract, a table of contents, a graphical representation, or a free-text account of the resource. |
DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
HTML built-in keyword description
|
Proposal |
| dcterms.educationLevel | A class of entity, defined in terms of progression through an educational or training context, for which the described resource is intended. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.extent | The size or duration of the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.format | The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.hasFormat | A related resource that is substantially the same as the pre-existing described resource, but in another format. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
The HTML link type keyword "alternate" used with "link" element:rel="alternate" type="URI of related resource"
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Proposal |
| dcterms.hasPart | A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.hasVersion | A related resource that is a version, edition, or adaptation of the described resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
The HTML link type keyword "alternate" used with "link" element:rel="alternate" type="URI of related resource"
|
Proposal |
| dcterms.identifier | An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.instructionalMethod | A process used to engender knowledge, attitudes and skills, that the described resource is designed to support. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.isFormatOf | A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
The HTML link type keyword "alternate" used with "link" element:rel="alternate" type="URI of related resource"
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Proposal |
| dcterms.isPartOf | A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.isReferencedBy | A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.isReplacedBy | A related resource that supplants, displaces, or supersedes the described resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.isRequiredBy | A related resource that requires the described resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.issued | Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. (DC
doesn't spec a date format but the established practice is YYYY-MM-DD.) |
DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
<time pubdate>
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Proposal |
| dcterms.isVersionOf | A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
The HTML link type keyword "alternate" used with "link" element:rel="alternate" type="URI of related resource"
|
Proposal |
| dcterms.language | A language of the resource. Recommended best practice is to use a
controlled vocabulary such as RFC 4646 [RFC4646]. |
DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Redundant with the lang attribute on the
|
Proposal |
| dcterms.license | A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
The HTML element license
|
Proposal |
| dcterms.mediator | An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.medium | The material or physical carrier of the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.modified | Date on which the resource was changed. (DC doesn't spec a date
format but the established practice is YYYY-MM-DD.) |
DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.provenance | A statement for any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.publisher | An entity responsible for making the resource available. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.references | A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.relation | A related resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.replaces | A related resource that is supplanted, displaced, or superseded by the described resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.requires | A related resource that is required by the described resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.rights | Information about rights held in and over the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.rightsHolder | A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.source | A related resource from which the described resource is derived. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.spatial | Spatial characteristics of the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.subject | The topic of the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
HTML built-in keyword keywords
|
Proposal |
| dcterms.tableOfContents | A list of subunits of the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.temporal | Temporal characteristics of the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.title | A name given to the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
The HTML element title
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Proposal |
| dcterms.type | The nature or genre of the resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| dcterms.valid | Date (often a range) of validity of a resource. | DCMI Metadata Terms mapped according to
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements |
Proposal | |
| designer | Credits the designer(s) responsible for the visual presentation of a website. | Documentation | Proposal | |
| entity | Allows for definitions of XML-style entities for substitution of references (defined as specially-named elements (e.g., use of data element and/or data-* attribute) or script tags) via inclusion of a JavaScript library. Library also supports inclusion of additional meta element entity definitions via iframe documents. | Documentation | Proposal | |
| EssayDirectory | Defines a custom description of websites listed in EssayDirectory. Example: <meta name="EssayDirectory" content="Helping students find legitimate essay services."> |
Documentation | Proposal | |
| icas.datetime.long | A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource represented in terms of ICAS long date format such as "UCN 12012 M03 Blue ❀ day 333 ❀ IDC zone(UT) t969 tt189". example <meta name="icas.datetime.long" content="UCN 12012 M03 Blue ❀ day 333 ❀ IDC zone(UT) t969 tt189"/> | a preliminary specification in the aaticas group on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/aaticas-4034149). after a period of review, a specification for AAT ICAS meta keywords for HTML(5) will be referenced on an AAT ICAS area of the aatideas.org web site. | proposal | |
| icas.datetime.day | A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource represented in terms of ICAS day-of-year format such as "2012 day 333 t969". | a preliminary specification in the aaticas group on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/aaticas-4034149). after a period of review, a specification for AAT ICAS meta keywords for HTML(5) will be referenced on an AAT ICAS area of the aatideas.org web site. | proposal | |
| icas.datetime.abbr | A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource represented in terms of an ICAS abbreviated format such as "d2M03 t969". | a preliminary specification in the aaticas group on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/aaticas-4034149). after a period of review, a specification for AAT ICAS meta keywords for HTML(5) will be referenced on an AAT ICAS area of the aatideas.org web site. | proposal | |
| icas.datetime | A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource represented in terms of an ICAS date and time format of unspecified information density (may include full, long, medium, short, or compressed forms). | a preliminary specification in the aaticas group on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/aaticas-4034149). after a period of review, a specification for AAT ICAS meta keywords for HTML(5) will be referenced on an AAT ICAS area of the aatideas.org web site. | proposal | |
| publisher | Searching for one content publisher's or page publisher's work requires a standard robot-parsable format for the information. This often differs from creator or author when the publisher is an institution. An institutional name, personal name, or other text entry is permissible. One element represents only one publisher. Multiple publishers are to be represented with multiple tags, although multiple publishers are less common than multiple authors or creators; multiplicity is more likely for a legal name and a well-known name. Search engines may index by any component of a name, so a publisher need only enter a name once in one order. |
defacto standard, used in nearly every website, e.g. [2][3][4] | Proposal | |
| review_date | The date a resource is scheduled for review by content creator in order to determine if it should be archived, updated or retained as is. | Health Canada Web Metadata Application Profile March 2009 | Proposal | |
| es.title | Object Title, where this is not the TITLE or H1 tag content, but the resource title | EIBS EasySite CMS - Content Attributes Reference | dcterms.title | Proposal |
| format-detection | Enables or disables automatic detection of possible phone numbers in a webpage in Safari on iOS. | Apple Safari HTML Reference | Proposal | |
| geo.position | Geographic position to which the page is related.
<meta name="geo.position" content="48.02682000000001;7.809769999999958"> |
IETF Draft GeoTags.com |
icbm (different value syntax) | Proposal |
| geo.country | Case-insensitive ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of a country to which the page is related.
<meta name="geo.country" content="de"> |
IETF Draft GeoTags.com ISO-3166-2 |
Proposal | |
| geo.a1 | National subdivision (state, canton, region, province, prefecture) of civil address to which the page is related. For resources within the US and Canada, corresponds to the common 2-character State/Province codes.
<meta name="geo.a1" content="AB"> |
IETF Draft GeoTags.com RFC 4776 |
Proposal | |
| geo.a2 | County, parish, gun (JP), district (IN) of civil address to which the page is related.
<meta name="geo.a2" content="Warwickshire"> |
IETF Draft GeoTags.com RFC 4776 |
Proposal | |
| geo.a3 | City, township, shi (JP) of civil address to which the page is related.
<meta name="geo.a3" content="Calgary"> |
IETF Draft GeoTags.com RFC 4776 |
Proposal | |
| geo.lmk | A landmark or vanity address to which the page is related.
<meta name="geo.lmk" content="Auwaldstraße 11, 79110 Freiburg im Breisgau, Deutschland"> |
IETF Draft GeoTags.com |
Proposal | |
| geo.region | Superseded by either geo.country alone or geo.country plus geo.a1. Name of geographic region to which the page is related. Content is specified by ISO-3166.
<meta name="geo.region" content="DE-BW"> |
IETF Draft GeoTags.com ISO-3166 |
Proposal | |
| geo.placename | Superseded by geo.lmk. Name of geographic place to which the page is related.
<meta name="geo.placename" content="London, Ontario"> |
IETF Draft GeoTags.com |
Proposal | |
| google-site-verification | Used to verify ownership for Webmaster Tools. | Google documentation | Proposal
| |
| google-translate-customization | Used to verify ownership for Website Translator. | Google documentation | Proposal | |
| verify-v1 | Superseded by google-site-verification. Legacy verification for Google Sitemaps. | Inside Google Sitemaps: More about meta tag verification | Proposal | |
| A content of "notranslate" will tell google not to pop up the translate bar / link if the page is in a foreign language form the user's browser.
<meta name="google" content="notranslate"> |
Google blog post | Proposal | ||
| googlebot | Synonym of robots for targeting Googlebot only.
|
Google documentation | Proposal | |
| revisit-after | revisit-after is used to tell search engines how often to recrawl the page. To our knowledge only one search engine has ever supported it, and that search engine was never widely used — at this point, it is nothing more than a good luck charm. | Google documentation | Proposal | |
| icbm | Defines geographic position to which page is related to. The acronym stands for ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile - an old, humorous allusion to the possible use of such coordinates. Example: <meta name="ICBM" content="47.0667, 15.4500" /> |
GeoURL documentation | geo.position (different value syntax) | Proposal |
| HandheldFriendly | Denotes handheld-friendly content | [5] | Proposal | |
| markosweb.com/validation | Used to verify ownership of Markosweb.com | Markosweb Validation Help | Proposal | |
| MobileOptimized | Denotes content optimized for mobile browsers | [6] | Proposal | |
| itemsPerPage | Used to identify the number of search results returned per page. | OpenSearch Specification | Proposal | |
| msapplication-task | "Jump List" or "Pinned Sites" in Windows 7
Jump List items act as entry points into the website even when the browser is not running. A Jump List can contain commonly used destinations and tasks. Some items apply to the whole site, and some apply only to specific users. For example, to add a single task called "Check Order Status" specify a meta element in the head of your webpage, as follows: <META name="msapplication-task" content="name=Check Order Status;
action-uri=./orderStatus.aspx?src=IE9;
icon-uri=./favicon.ico" />
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Tasks in Jump List | Proposal | |
| msapplication-starturl | "Jump List" or "Pinned Sites" in Windows 7
The "msapplication-starturl" metadata contains the root URL of the application. The start URL can be fully qualified, or relative to the current document. Only HTTP and HTTPS protocols are allowed. If this element is missing, the address of the current page is used instead. <meta name="msapplication-starturl" content="./" /> |
Declaring Pinned Site Metadata | Proposal | |
| msapplication-tooltip | "Jump List" or "Pinned Sites" in Windows 7
The "msapplication-tooltip" metadata provides additional tooltip text that appears when you hover over the Pinned Site shortcut in the Windows Start menu or on the desktop. <meta name="msapplication-tooltip" content="Channel 9 Podcasts" /> |
Declaring Pinned Site Metadata | Proposal | |
| msapplication-navbutton-color | "Jump List" or "Pinned Sites" in Windows 7
The "msapplication-navbutton-color" metadata define the custom color of the Back and Forward buttons in the Pinned Site browser window. Any named color, or hex color value is valid. <meta name="msapplication-navbutton-color" content="#FF3300" /> |
Declaring Pinned Site Metadata | Proposal | |
| msapplication-window | "Jump List" or "Pinned Sites" in Windows 7
The "msapplication-window" metadata sets the initial size of the Pinned Site window when it is launched for the first time. However, if the user adjusts the size of the window, the Pinned Site retains the new dimensions when it is launched again.
The following properties can be used in the value of the
<meta name="msapplication-window" content="width=1024;height=768" /> |
Declaring Pinned Site Metadata | Proposal | |
| msapplication-TileImage | The "msapplication-TileImage" metadata define the path to an image to be used as background for a tile in Pinned Sites in Windows 8. Tile images must be square PNGs 144px by 144px.
<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="images/benthepcguy-144.png" /> |
High Quality Visuals for Pinned Sites in Windows 8 | Proposal | |
| msapplication-TileColor | The "msapplication-TileColor" metadata define the background color of a tile in Pinned Sites in Windows 8. The tile color can be specified as a hex RGB color using CSS’s #rrggbb notation, via CSS color names, or by the CSS rgb() function.
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#d83434"/> |
High Quality Visuals for Pinned Sites in Windows 8 | Proposal | |
| msvalidate.01 | One of the verification elements used by Bing. | Bing Webmaster Tools | Proposal | |
| og:audio | A URL to an audio file to accompany this object. | The Open Graph protocol | Proposal | |
| og:description | A one to two sentence description of your object. | The Open Graph protocol | Proposal | |
| og:determiner | The word that appears before this object's title in a sentence. An enum of (a, an, the, "", auto). If auto is chosen, the consumer of your data should chose between "a" or "an". Default is "" (blank). | The Open Graph protocol | Proposal | |
| og:image | An image URL which should represent your object within the graph. | The Open Graph protocol | Proposal | |
| og:locale | The locale these tags are marked up in. Of the format language_TERRITORY. Default is en_US. | The Open Graph protocol | Proposal | |
| og:locale:alternate | An array of other locales this page is available in. | The Open Graph protocol | Proposal | |
| og:site_name | If your object is part of a larger web site, the name which should be displayed for the overall site. e.g., "IMDb". | The Open Graph protocol | Proposal | |
| og:title | The title of your object as it should appear within the graph, e.g., "The Rock". | The Open Graph protocol | Proposal | |
| og:type | The type of your object, e.g., "video.movie". Depending on the type you specify, other properties may also be required. | The Open Graph protocol | Proposal | |
| og:url | The canonical URL of your object that will be used as its permanent ID in the graph, e.g., "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/". | The Open Graph protocol | Proposal | |
| og:video | A URL to a video file that complements this object. | The Open Graph protocol | Proposal | |
| norton-safeweb-site-verification | Used to verify ownership of Website for Norton SafeWeb. | Norton SafeWeb Help Documentation | Proposal | |
| Used to block pinterest from linking to content on the URL.
Example: |
Pinterest Help Article | Proposal | ||
| rating | The Restricted to Adults label (RTA) provides a way for adult oriented websites to indicate that their content is off limits to children. RTA was introduced in 2006 and is currently used by a large number of adult web content providers. RTA is recognized by all major parental control filters.
Example: <meta name="RATING" content="RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA" /> |
RTA documentation | Proposal | |
| referrer | Controls whether the user agent includes the Referer header in HTTP requests originating from this document | Meta referrer | Proposal | |
| ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles | MediaWiki's ResourceLoader uses this name with content set to the empty string. The purpose is to mark the DOM position before which dynamic styles should be added.
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ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles | Proposal | |
| rights-standard | The purpose is to enable search engines and other cataloging services to compile the types of rights allocated to the work. (Does any search engine actually implement this? hsivonen 07:34, 14 July 2011 (UTC))
This keyword does not provide, remove or alter any legal protections or designations.
<meta name="rights-standard" content="element id;rights" />
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Spec | Redundant with Microdata vocabulary for licensing works. | Proposal |
| robots | A comma-separated list of operators explaining how search engine crawlers should treat the content. Possible values are "noarchive" to prevent cached versions, "noindex" to prevent indexing, and "nofollow" works as the link rel value with the same name. This meta name is already supported by every popular search engine. The content value "NOODP" has been offered elsewhere, so I'm proposing it here. It blocks robots from using Open Directory Project descriptions of a website instead of Web pages' own meta descriptions. It may have been introduced by Microsoft. The content value "NOYDIR" has been offered by Yahoo, so I'm proposing it here. It blocks Yahoo's robot from using the Yahoo directory's descriptions of a website instead of Web pages' own meta descriptions. Whether any other robot supports this is unknown but possibly no other search engine uses Yahoo's directory anyway. |
Robots exclusion protocol, NOODP value: Google, Yahoo, NOYDIR value: Yahoo, as accessed 4-28-09 | Proposal | |
| skype_toolbar | Prevents the Skype browser extension from automatically seeking through the page and replacing telephone numbers (or any number the program's algorithm thinks is a telephone number) with its own custom presentation that allows direct invocation of the Skype program to call the telephone number.
Example: <meta name="skype_toolbar" content="skype_toolbar_parser_compatible" /> |
Skype Info | Proposal | |
| slurp | Synonym of robots for targeting Yahoo! only.
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Yahoo! documentation | Proposal | |
| startIndex | Used to identify the index of the first search result in the current set of search results. | OpenSearch Specification | Proposal | |
| teoma | Synonym of robots for targeting Teoma and Ask.com only.
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Ask.com documentation | Proposal | |
| totalResults | Used to identify the number of search results available for the current search. | OpenSearch Specification | Proposal | |
| viewport | Provides a way for documents to specify (using markup rather than CSS) the size, zoom factor, and orientation of the viewport that is used as the base for the document's initial containing block. The following properties can be used in the value of the content attribute:
Examples: <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=480, initial-scale=2.0, user-scalable=1"> For more details, see the Viewport META element section of the CSS Device Adaptation draft specification. |
For meta elements that have a name attribute whose value is viewport, the CSS Device Adaptation draft specification defines the recognized properties for the content attribute>, as well as an algorithm for parsing the value of that attribute.
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| wt.cg_n | Name of the Content Group
Used to configure the appropriate Webtrends advanced feature. These are just some of the more popular ones. These appear in your META tags. – showing you the web page, the source (meta tag), the log files entry and the subsequent WT report. Example: <meta name="wt.cg_n" content="My content"> |
Webtrends Parameters | Proposal | |
| wt.cg_s | Name of Content Sub-Group
Used to configure the appropriate Webtrends advanced feature. These are just some of the more popular ones. These appear in your META tags. – showing you the web page, the source (meta tag), the log files entry and the subsequent WT report. Example: <meta name="wt.cg_s" content="My content"> |
Webtrends Parameters | Proposal | |
| WT.si_n | Scenario analysis parameter - scenario name
This defines a scenario name for the page or set of pages to be included in the scenario. This in turn produces a funnel type report in Webtrends. Example: <meta name="WT.si_n" content="my_scenario_name"> |
Webtrends Parameters. | Proposal | |
| WT.si_p | Scenario analysis parameter - scenario step name
This defines a scenario step name for the page or set of pages to be included in the scenario. This in turn produces a funnel type report in Webtrends. It works when paired with metedata tag name WT.si_n. Example: <meta name="WT.si_p" content="my_scenario_step_name"> |
Webtrends Parameters. | Proposal | |
| WT.si_x | Scenario analysis parameter - scenario step number
This defines a scenario step number for the page or set of pages to be included in the scenario. This in turn produces a funnel type report in Webtrends. It works when paired with metedata tag name WT.si_n, and as an alternative to Wt.si_p. Example: <meta name="WT.si_x" content="my_scenario_step_number"> |
Webtrends Parameters. | Proposal | |
| wt.ac | Advertising Click parameter
When a visitor to your site clicks on an ad, that action is referred to as an Ad Click. The following META tag tracks advertising clicks: <META NAME="WT.ac" CONTENT="name"> Defines the name of the advertisement clicked to reach a particular web page. The Ad Click must contain an external redirect back to the client. The redirect needs to include the necessary code to generate a hit to the SDC server. You can designate multiple Advertising Clicks using semicolons. Examples: <a href="file111.html?WT.ac=CONTENT111"> <a href="file222.html?WT.ac=CONTENT222"> The name of the advertisement clicked to reach a particular web page. To capture this information with DCS, the Advertising Click must contain an external redirect back to the client. The redirect needs to include the necessary code to generate a hit to the DCS. The maximum length for each name is 64 bytes. |
Webtrends Parameters | Proposal | |
| wt.ad | Advertising View parameter
Visitors often view advertisements that they do not necessarily click on. You can use On-Site Advertising to determine the number of visitors to your web site who view particular ads. With this feature you can produce advertising reports for each of your clients. If you are selling advertising space on your web site, for example, you can collect traffic statistics to help determine pricing schedules. The following META tag tracks advertising views: <meta name="WT.ad" content="My content"> An Ad View occurs when a visitor views a page containing an ad. An ad is a link or graphic that contains an Ad Click parameter in the query portion of it's URL. |
Webtrends Parameters | Proposal | |
| wt.mc_id | Identifies the ID of the marketing campaign
To attract new students, a university launches a marketing campaign by sending recruitment email to all graduating high school seniors in a metropolitan area. The email links to a special landing page in the university’s web site, containing the following META tag to track marketing campaigns. Example: <META NAME="WT.mc_id" CONTENT="1X2GG34"> You may use this parameter on the URL. Example: <a href="link?WT.mc_id=1X2GG34"> The Campaign ID 1X2GG34 represents recruits to be contacted by email |
Webtrends Parameters | Proposal | |
| wt.sv | Tracking Servers parameter
If your site is hosted on multiple servers, a server cluster, or a server farm, and you want to evaluate the performance of your load balancer, Webtrends can track page views for each server. To do so, populate the following META tag on all pages on each server: Example: <meta name="WT.sv" content="My Server"> Defines the name of the machine that serves the web page. If you have two servers (Server1 and Server2), you would make two copies of the META tag and designate CONTENT=“Server1” for deployment to pages on the first server and CONTENT=“Server2” for deployment to the same pages on the second server. For a server farm, you can extract the value of the built-in server name and dynamically assign it to the META tag using server-side scripting. Example: <meta name="WT.sv" content="Server1"> <meta name="WT.sv" content="Server2"> An Ad View occurs when a visitor views a page containing an ad. An ad is a link or graphic that contains an Ad Click parameter in the query portion of it's URL. |
About WT.ad. | Proposal | |
| wt.ti | Tracking Page Titles
You may want to modify a page title before sending it to Webtrends in the following cases:
Unless you modify the page titles, all pages have the same title in the reports.
Even though URLs are displayed in addition to page title, the entire URL cannot be depended upon to distinguish one page from another. Use server-side scripts to change the title to something that reflects the content of the pages so that you can identify them in reports. Next, pass the customized page titles to Webtrends, using the following META tag: <META NAME="WT.ti" CONTENT="title"> Defines the name of the title for this page. |
Webtrends Parameters | Proposal | |
| y_key | Used to verify ownership for Yahoo! Site Explorer | Yahoo! documentation | Proposal | |
| yandex-verification | Used to verify ownership for Yandex Webmaster. | Yandex Webmaster ownership verification | Proposal | |
| globrix.instruction | Globrix property information: Property to Buy or Rent | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.price | Globrix property information: Price for the property | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.postcode | Globrix property information: Postcode of the property | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.bedrooms | Globrix property information: Number of bedrooms the property has | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.bathrooms | Globrix property information: Number of bathrooms the property has | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.type | Globrix property information: Type of property e.g. 'semi-detatched house' | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.condition | Globrix property information: Condition of the property e.g. 'renovated' | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.features | Globrix property information: Features of the property e.g. 'double glazing' | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.outsidespace | Globrix property information: External features of the property e.g. 'garden' | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.parking | Globrix property information: Parking available for property e.g. 'parking for 2 cars' | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.period | Globrix property information: Period of the property e.g. 'victorian terrace' | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.poa | Globrix property information: If the property price is only available on application | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.tenure | Globrix property information: The tenure of the property e.g. 'leasehold' | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.underoffer | Globrix property information: Indicates if the property is under offer | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.priceproximity | Globrix property information: The region of the attached price e.g. 'guide price of' | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.latitude | Globrix property information: The latitude of the property | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| globrix.longitude | Globrix property information: The longitude of the property | FAQ About the Globrix meta tags. | Proposal | |
| meta_date | The date used to indicate that the Metadata has been prepared and/or reviewed and approved by the Metadata Unit. Its purpose is administrative. (Used by "Autonomy".) | Health Canada Web Metadata Application Profile March 2009 | Proposal
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| Site-Type | Used to define the body of the document content type offered | Information and values accepted by Metatag | Proposal | |
| wot-verification | Used to verify ownership of WOT (Web Of Trust) | WOT's verify your site wiki page | Proposal | |
| gwt:property | Used to specify the locale client property | Locales in GWT | Proposal | |
| mobile-agent | Specifies the mobile-compatible url of the web page. Used by mobile browsers and search engines to redirect mobile phone visitors to the proper mobile page. The following properties can be used in the value of the content attribute: <meta name="mobile-agent" content="format=html5; url=http://3g.sina.com.cn/"> |
Baidu Mobile SEO | Proposal | |
| twitter:card | The card type, which will be one of "summary", "photo", or "player". | Twitter cards documentation | Proposal | |
| twitter:url | Canonical URL of the card content. | Twitter cards documentation | Proposal | |
| twitter:title | The title of the content as it should appear in the card. | Twitter cards documentation | Proposal | |
| twitter:description | A description of the content in a maximum of 200 characters. | Twitter cards documentation | Proposal | |
| twitter:image | A URL to the image representing the content. | Twitter cards documentation | Proposal | |
| twitter:site | @username for the website used in the card footer. | Twitter cards documentation | Proposal | |
| twitter:creator | @username for the content creator / author. | Twitter cards documentation | Proposal | |
| web_author | Credits the developer(s) responsible for the technical design of a website. | Documentation | designer - for visual presentation | Proposal |
| ZOOMCATEGORY | Category of page to be grouped in Wrensoft Zoom Search Engine. | Wrensoft Zoom Meta Documentation | Proposal | |
| ZOOMDESCRIPTION | Alternative page description for Wrensoft Zoom Search Engine. | Wrensoft Zoom Meta Documentation | Proposal | |
| ZOOMIMAGE | URL to image to be displayed alongside result in Wrensoft Zoom Search Engine. | Wrensoft Zoom Meta Documentation | Proposal | |
| ZOOMPAGEBOOST | Page boost factor to increase or decrease the relevance of page in Wrensoft Zoom Search Engine. | Wrensoft Zoom Meta Documentation | Proposal | |
| ZOOMTITLE | Alternative page title for Wrensoft Zoom Search Engine. | Wrensoft Zoom Meta Documentation | Proposal | |
| ZOOMWORDS | Additional keywords to be indexed for Wrensoft Zoom Search Engine. | Wrensoft Zoom Meta Documentation | Proposal |
Proposals that don't meet the requirements for a registration
Note that these proposals can be moved back to the registry table if the problems listed in the rightmost column of this table are addressed.
| Keyword | Brief description | Link to specification | Synonyms | Status | Registration requirement failure |
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| gm-gpx-v | Wordpress Plugin Google Maps GPX Viewer | Google Maps GPX Viewer | Incomplete proposal | Claimed spec link is not a link to a spec | |
| og:title | Open Graph Protocol by Facebook developers | Facebook developers | Incomplete proposal | The spec specifies this to be a value of the property attribute--not a meta keyword | |
| og:type | Open Graph Protocol by Facebook developers | Facebook developers | Incomplete proposal | The spec specifies this to be a value of the property attribute--not a meta keyword | |
| og:url | Open Graph Protocol by Facebook developers | Facebook developers | Incomplete proposal | The spec specifies this to be a value of the property attribute--not a meta keyword | |
| og:image | Open Graph Protocol by Facebook developers | Facebook developers | Incomplete proposal | The spec specifies this to be a value of the property attribute--not a meta keyword | |
| og:site_name | Open Graph Protocol by Facebook developers | Facebook developers | Incomplete proposal | The spec specifies this to be a value of the property attribute--not a meta keyword | |
| fb:admins | Open Graph Protocol by Facebook developers | Facebook developers | Incomplete proposal | The spec specifies this to be a value of the property attribute--not a meta keyword | |
| og:description | Open Graph Protocol by Facebook developers | Facebook developers | Incomplete proposal | The spec specifies this to be a value of the property attribute--not a meta keyword | |
| fb:page_id | Open Graph Protocol by Facebook developers | Facebook developers | Incomplete proposal | The spec specifies this to be a value of the property attribute--not a meta keyword | |
| audience | To aid search engines in classifying and to aid directory compilers, an audience most appropriate for the page may be suggested. Subject matter may not be a good clue; for example, an analysis of children's literature may be directed to teachers. A value is free-form case-insensitive text without a comma. Multiple values are to be comma-separated. Singular and plural forms have the same meaning. Recognized values: -- "all" and "everyone", which have the same meaning -- "adult" and "mature" have the same meaning and are for content that only adults may access, but no one responsible for preventing a nonadult or the immature from accessing the page or its content should rely on either or both of these values to do so without other means (not the same as "grownup", which see) -- "child" and "juvenile", which have the same meaning -- "teen" -- "grownup" is not identical to "adult" or "mature" in not implying a precise boundary but is approximately any person who may be able to understand and apply the content (e.g., car driving instruction that may be read by a minor not yet old enough to drive a car but who would likely benefit from somewhat early exposure to the instruction) -- "parent" to include guardian and temporary caregiver -- "teacher" to include professor and ad hoc instructor -- "elementary school student" to include any student below high school -- "high school student" -- "elhi" to include any student in elementary school through high school -- "college student" including graduate and professional school -- "business" including management, finance, and prospective customers (this includes e-commerce and investor sites) -- "health" including any health care provider including alternative and ad hoc -- "patient" for any health care recipient -- "lawyer" including judge, paralegal, and jailhouse lawyer -- "law client" for any prospective recipient of a lawyer's service (not usually a social work client) with lawyer including paralegal and jailhouse lawyer but not necessarily judge -- "craft" for any craftworker including laborer and artisan -- "artist" including musician, actor, dancer, and sculptor and including creator and performer -- "military" including paramilitary -- "news" including any consumer of rapidly-developing news -- "introductory" and "beginner", which have the same meaning -- "intermediate" and "midlevel", which have the same meaning -- "advanced" and "advance", which have the same meaning -- "scholarly" and "scholar", which have the same meaning -- "popular" generally referring to a writing style -- "older" including retiree -- "institution" including from corporation to conspiracy (such as for management advice) -- "government" including agencies and prospective politicians -- values using any integer or single-digit decimal in the form of "grade 8" or "grade 6.4" including to refer to a reading comprehension level (this generally will not exceed 12 and might be meaningless above 20 so higher values may be interpreted as the highest meaningful value) -- "viewers" for when content (such as a movie) is intended almost entirely to be seen rather than read -- "listeners" for when content (such as music) is intended almost entirely to be heard rather than read but not generally including text-to-speech support -- "tts", "text-to-speech", or "text to speech", which three have the same meaning and which are for a page that has substantial support for TTS or that will be readily understood through TTS without need for such support (TTS is often aided by, e.g., pre-resolving pronunciation ambiguities in page coding) -- values using any numbers in the form of "3-6 years old", whether a range or a single-number value -- values using any decade in the form of "born in 1970s" Unrecognized values such as "botanists", "Texans", and "writers who use red ink" may be used but at a risk that a search engine or directory editor will either fail to recognize it or will interpret it in unpredictable ways, or will in the future. Spellings that are erroneous or slightly different from a recognized value may be interpreted by a search engine or directory editor as representing a recognized value. The absence of the keyword defaults to a value of "all" but without overriding another indication arrived at by other means. |
Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | ||
| blogcatalog | Used to verify ownership of Blog Catalog.com | Blog catalog site | Incomplete proposal | Claimed spec link is not a link to a spec | |
| bot-. . . | Robot owners, to allow page authors access to robotic capabilities, e.g., to deny them, should prefix "bot-" to the name of their robot, especially for proprietary bots. Example: If a robot were to be named "dullbucklequiz", the name in the meta element would be "bot-dullbucklequiz". The value "bot-" alone represents all bots so prefixed, like a wildcard. Arguably, there's no need for a list here of any specific bots if http://user-agents.org or http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/ (and perhaps other sites) is reliable. |
Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec, tries to register a space of names instead of enumerated names | ||
| created | The datetime at which the document was created. The value is an ISO8601 date. The date MUST follow the W3C Profile of ISO 8601 with a granularity of "Complete date:" or finer. The BBC use this name. | Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | ||
| creator | The creator is an off-Web or pre-Web creator of a work for which an author authored a Web page, so that the creator and the author may be different people. Searching for one content creator's work requires a standard robot-parsable format for the information. A personal name, institutional name, or other text entry is permissible. One element represents only one creator. Multiple creators are to be represented with multiple tags. Search engines may index by any component of a name, so a content creator need only enter a name once in one first-last or family-given order (e.g., Pat Thunderbird or Thunderbird, Pat, but not requiring both). |
Talk | Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec
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| msnbot | Synonym of robots for targeting Bing only.
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Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | ||
| ia_archive | Synonym of robots for targeting Internet Archive and Alexa only.
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Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | ||
| datetime-coverage | The author may be the best expert on which time frame is most relevant to the content. Leaving that to search engine analysis may be too chancy without search engine optimization, which analysis is difficult to apply by algorithm to, e.g., historical papers that may focus on the 1800s but mention 1731 and 1912 perhaps unimportantly. The value for this keyword is a date or time -- not a range and not vague, for which other keywords are proposed -- in a format in accordance with http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime (albeit a note that's at W3C only for discussion). Any of the six levels of granularity in that note are acceptable, such as expressing only a year. Should this keyword appear more than once, all the values so appearing are determinative. Multiple values are to be expressed with separate meta elements lest the note be revised in the future in a way incompatible with comma-separating a list. |
Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | ||
| property="og:*" | Metadata used by the Open Graph protocol (used by Facebook). Note: currently these are defined as: <meta property="og.*" content="x"/> | FAQ About the Open Graph protocol from Facebook. | Doesn't belong in this registry | Not a value to be used in the name attribute
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| datetime-coverage-end | This is identical to the keyword datetime-coverage except that it represents only the end. If this keyword is used without datetime-coverage-start (also proposed), its value is interpreted as ending a range without a start. Should this keyword appear more than once, all the values so appearing are determinative, in which case each represents the end of a different range assumed to be nonnesting. Example: If four elements happen to be in the order of datetime-coverage-end=1865, datetime-coverage-start=1914, datetime-coverage-end=1918, and datetime-coverage-start=1862, assuming proper formatting, the ranges should be interpreted as 1862-1865 and 1914-1918. |
Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | ||
| datetime-coverage-start | This is identical to the keyword datetime-coverage except that it represents only the start. If this keyword is used without datetime-coverage-end (also proposed), its value is interpreted as starting a range without an end. Should this keyword appear more than once, all the values so appearing are determinative, in which case each represents the start of a different range assumed to be nonnesting. Example: If four elements happen to be in the order of datetime-coverage-start=1862, datetime-coverage-start=1914, datetime-coverage-end=1865, and datetime-coverage-end=1918, assuming proper formatting, the ranges should be interpreted as 1862-1865 and 1914-1918. |
Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | ||
| datetime-coverage-vague | This is identical to the keyword datetime-coverage except that its value is not necessarily crisp. This keyword should be used only when datetime-coverage, datetime-coverage-start, and datetime-coverage-end are inappropriate, but there's no ban on using all four. Any text without a comma can be the value (e.g., Pleistocene, 1820s, Tuesdays, or before we were born); multiple values are comma-separated. If this keyword is used with datetime-coverage, datetime-coverage-start, or datetime-coverage-end, the vague value should be exploited along with the value/s for the other keyword/s. Should this keyword appear more than once, all are determinative. |
Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | ||
| DC. | Dublin Core, maintained by Dublin Core MetaData Initiative (DCMI), is an extensive system with some overlap with non-DC names. This reserves all strings that begin with DC and a dot. Not true; DC-HTML doesn't use hardwired prefixes, but defines the prefixes using link/@rel="scheme.prefix" |
DCMI | Incomplete proposal | Tries to register a space of names instead of enumerated names | |
| dir-content-pointer | When several pages in a directory include main content, a table of contents, an index, and the like, a search engine may be able to organize results more usefully by identifying which is which with a standard vocabulary, helpful when different publishers use different conventions when displaying or printing content. A value is free-form case-insensitive text without a comma and optionally with a trailing number. Multiple values are to be comma-separated (multiple values are appropriate when one document serves multiple purposes). Singular and plural forms have the same meaning. Recognized values, which are pointer types to which numbers may be suffixed, are limited to "start" meaning 'the first page that should be seen by a user' (this may be anywhere in the directory and anywhere within content), "toc" meaning 'table of contents', "intro" including introductions, forewords, prefaces, and tables of figures, "abstract", "main", "bibliography" and "biblio", which have the same meaning, "index" which may mean 'sitemap' or not, "afterword" and "update" which have the same meaning and need not actually update, "credit" meaning 'credits and acknowledgments', and "author bio" meaning 'author's biography', including any information about the author including credentials and contact information. The number suffix may be spaceless or not. When numbers are suffixed, a search engine or directory should arrange like items in numerical order in the results, with unnumbered items following like items that are numbered, e.g., intro 1, intro 2, main 1, main 2, main, main, and so on. Each directory and each subdirectory has its own sequence. |
Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | ||
| expires | meta name='expires' defines the expiration date of the page. This can be used for web pages in preparation for an upcoming event, e.g. a registration form for an exposition or competition, or other cases with a pre-set date when the document will no longer be valid, e.g. a product offer in a special sale or a support page for a product known not to be supported anymore from a given time onward.
Search engines should respond to this meta tag in a reasonable way, i.e. by removing the page from their main search results after the expiration date (possibly still returning the result in a special search for expired pages as long as the page exists and is not explicitly excluded via The content attribute should define the expiration date in accordance with http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime . The meta tag should not be used for pages without expiration date. However, for historical reasons, search engines should also interpret other date formats where possible and should be prepared to find values such as "", "0", "no" and "never". Such non-date values are to be interpreted as no expiration date. Correctly formatted example: This tag is not to be confused with and has a different meaning than |
Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | ||
| format-print | This is to allow a user agent to inform an operating system or a printer driver of the preferred print medium, such as the paper size. A value is free-form case-insensitive text without a comma. Multiple values are to be comma-separated (multiple values might be appropriate because standard paper sizes vary around the world). Singular and plural forms have the same meaning. Recognized values are limited to "letter", "A4", "legal", "A5", "B5", "monarch", "envelope 10" meaning size #10, "envelope 6-3-4" meaning size #6 3/4, values with integers and decimals in the form of "8.5 x 11" or "8.5x11" in which spacing of the "x" does not affect meaning, "paper", which means 'paper of the default color (usually white) and weight (usually 20-lb. stock)', "white", "yellow", "pink", "blue", "green", "violet", or "multicolor", which means a medium of the given color or mixed, "letterhead", "p2 letterhead" meaning 'letterhead intended for any page except the first', "watermark" meaning a 'special watermark such as an organization's own', and "plain" meaning 'not preprinted and not letterhead (it may have a paper manufacturer's watermark not related to letterhead)'. Omitting "paper" when another recognized value is given defaults to an implied meaning of 'paper' with the other value; e.g., "letter" means 'letter paper'; the same principle applies to a medium's color (the default being white for paper and colorless for transparency) and plainness or lack thereof (the default being plain). Other values should be proposed before being recognized here. Label sizes should be proposed here for labels that are not on backing sheets that fit one of the recognized values, e.g., labels on narrow rolls. Blueprint paper sizes should be proposed here. Media other than standard paper, such as onion skin, heavier paper, card, and clear or color transparency, should be proposed here. The user agent may, with the user's or user sysadmin's permission (as by a menu-driven default), interpret a value to offer an alternative the user might accept and software and firmware other than the UA may interpret a value to the same end with or without permission, so this keyword is only suggestive; e.g., "letter" may be interpreted as "A4". The absence of the keyword defaults to a value determined by other than the page, e.g., by the printer driver or the user agent. |
Talk | Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | |
| geographic-coverage | The author may be the best expert on the geographic relevance of the content. Leaving that to search engine analysis may be too chancy without search engine optimization, which analysis is difficult to apply by algorithm to, e.g., historical papers and epidemiological studies which may mention locales only once. Absence of the keyword defaults to a value of world (not universe), unless the search engine chooses to interpret the page or larger unit for some other value, probably based on other than just contact information given in the website. The value for this keyword is a semicolon-separated list of one or more place-values, the order of which do not matter. One place-value will use commas to separate, in order, an optional standard natural language symbol applicable to the place-value (when omitted the language applicable to the page will control), a place-class, one or more place-subclasses if any, and one or more place name parts (where, e.g., in "Cape Town, South Africa", "Cape Town" is a place name part but "Town" is not). Spaces after semicolons and commas are optional; spaces within place-values are present when required for each place-value (e.g., "Quezon City", not an invented "QuezonCity"). To distinguish names that might otherwise be too similar, place-classes, all lower-case and hyphenatably spaceless, include outer-space, region (on Earth and crossing or larger than a nation, e.g., southern hemisphere, polar region, temperate zone, or Asia), intntl-water (an 'international water body'), intntl-agcy ('international agency' or 'international collection', e.g., all U.N. member nations), nation, within-nation (limited to only one political level down from nation, e.g., state, province, territory, possession, city not included within other political units of a nation, or any comparable unit), city (including town, village, hamlet, and any comparable political unit below the level of within-nation), addr (including address, full-length street, building, institution, and neighborhood without political boundaries), pol-unit (pol abbreviating 'political') (e.g., a place of disputed nationhood), hist-pol-unit (hist abbreviating 'historical') (e.g., the Roman Empire), feature (e.g., river), num (e.g., latitude and longitude or outer-space equivalent in numbers), and ethereal (including thealogical/theological, fictional including from modern popular entertainment, and ancient secular mythical, but not including that which is asserted to be a state of mind or existence but not a place, such as nirvana). (Example for one hypothetical page: name="geographic-coverage" content="region, sub-Saharan Africa; nation, Panama; city, Panama, Panama; within-nation, Sao Paulo, Brazil; city, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; within-nation, Mississippi, United States of America; region, Middle East; region, Midwest, United States of America; hist-pol-unit, Northwest Territory, United States of America; feature, river, Indus; outer-space, Indus; ethereal, ultima Thule; ethereal, Heaven; ethereal, Flatland; ethereal, Valhalla; en-US, addr, Hotel Valhalla, Fredrikstad, Norway; es, nation, Espana" (Indus is both a river and a constellation, illustrating the need for place-classes)). Ambiguity of place-values should be avoided despite convenience in coding because search engines may each interpret them as they see fit, e.g., it would be hard for an engine to distinguish New York from New York. For consistency of spelling, several authority lists should be settled upon, with legal, well-known, and disputed names and common abbreviations all being acceptable; but I'm not proposing one here now (relying on IANA's ccTLD list might be too complex to implement and still assure coding consistency, e.g., occasionally ccTLDs can be phased out and off of IANA's list) (a standard vocabulary possibly usable here is the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online, subject to licensing and charset choice); and promulgating authority lists may best be done publicly by search engine managements, who may disagree with each other. Allowing Unicode for non-Roman alphabet-using locales is desirable, but at present that may raise technical problems, including computer security issues, that are not yet readily soluble. |
Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | ||
| keywords-not | A comma-separated list of negative keywords that distinguish a closely-related theme from this page's true theme, to support Boolean NOT searches often more realistically than visible text can, especially when both themes share the same lexicon. If keywords is no longer a supported name for a meta element, keywords-not is superfluous; however, debate has been revived on whether keywords should be supported or not; see the keywords entry in this Wiki. |
W3C Bug 6609 | Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec
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| nextgen | Used for nextgen gallery plugin in wordpress | Alexa FAQ About this meta attribute Reference | Incomplete proposal | Unrelated spec link | |
| page-datetime | Better ranking in search engine results for recency or relevance to an event date would be aided by a standard format robots can parse. Users would save search time by not having to load many pages to find which ones are new or date-relevant. To supply a consistent and known format, the value for this keyword is a date-time expression formed in accordance with http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime (albeit a note that's at W3C only for discussion). Any of the six levels of granularity in that note are acceptable, such as expressing only a year. Should this keyword appear more than once, only the first one so appearing is determinative. |
Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | ||
| page-version | Pages may be revised several times daily. While date-time given to a granularity of a fraction of a second would often suffice, when a page has to be approved more than once before posting, any or no such time may be correct (without this keyword, a comment could be necessary but probably not parsable by an engine). In addition, versions regardless of date may show consecutiveness and can replace a date that must be vague. In that case, a version number may be more useful for searches and so a robot-parsable format is needed. The keyword's value is stated in ASCII digits, is any nonnegative base-10 rational number expressed as an integer or a decimal, with any number of decimal places allowed, and may be padded with any number of leading zeros to support extraction for ASCII sorting. Should this keyword appear more than once, only the first one so appearing is determinative. The versions 0 and 0.n, with n being to any number of places, signify beta versions, i.e., drafts, in the tradition of beta software, while versions 1 and higher ordinarily signify final-release versions. After a final-release version is released, a draft of a later version is not given a version number of 0 or 0.n, but is numbered higher than the last final-release version. It is suggested to page authors that draft status, if applicable, be shown in the visibly displayed text of the page, rather than that this meta tag be relied upon as the sole notice of draft status, as it may be inadequate notice if alone. To assign a low page-version such as 0.n or 1, the page's URL, if static, may be used as the relevant premise. Thus, if a page is copied or moved to a new URL, the author may choose to restart page-version numbering from 0.n or 1. If a page's URL is dynamic, e.g., if created on the fly from a script, the page author may prefer to use as the relevant premise for assigning a low page-version such as 0.n or 1 the URL of the script or other technology that generates the dynamic-URL page, placing this meta element containing this attribute within the script or other technology, not within the generating page's head element (the generating page's head element may have its own meta element with this attribute describing the generating page). If one page containing the script or other technology that generates another page has more than one means for generating dynamic-URL pages, each means should contain its own meta element with this attribute. Page-version is thus largely independent of the page's date, although both would likely advance roughly in parallel. |
Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | ||
| resolutions | Authoring web sites to use resolution independent images that display beautifully on high-resolution displays should be made as easy as possible for developers and should not require JavaScript to accomplish.
To accomplish this, I propose a new HTML Meta Tag, So, for example… … means that the developer is telling the browser that she has created 2x resolution images for the images linked to from the current page and named them with a @2x suffix. To illustrate, if her image tag is as follows… … then she has two image files under /images: the low-resolution default (flower.jpg), and a higher-resolution (200%) version named [email protected]. (This is the same naming convention already used by Apple in its Cocoa Touch framework for automatically loading in higher-resolution versions of images.) Based on the meta tag, if the browser detects that the user is running at a Finally, so as not to flood external sites with high-resolution image requests, this functionality would only work for local images specified via relative links. Multiple resolutions The resolutions tag can also contain a list of supported device-pixel ratios so as to support even higher-resolution displays when and if they become available in the future. For example: In this case, the developer would provide 2x, 4x, and 8x versions of all images. So, in the running example, she would make flower.jpg, [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]. Advantages The advantages of this approach are several:
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Proposal for native browser support of high-resolution image substitution
How to make your web content look stunning on the iPhone 4’s new Retina display |
Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | |
| rights | As a page effectively appears in at least two forms, usually one as interpreted and displayed on a device and the other as source code, arguably intellectual property rights that must be asserted must be asserted in ways understandable in both contexts. For example, © is a raw representation that may legally fail as part of copyright notice to someone seeing source code and not the display, important when someone wants to copy source code for use elsewhere and may rely on a defense of innocent infringement (at least in U.S.). While such assertions can be made in a comment element, it may be helpful to have a tag that search engines can parse and index verbatim. The value may include standard and nonstandard notices, invocations of licenses such as GFDL and ASCAP, and any other information. Content is defined as free-form, leaving the page author discretion for the entry. Statements in one tag may discuss several portions of the page differently, e.g., with different licenses. More than one license may be offered, along with the page's relationship to all. Not all statements need be license grants. A statement may state whom to ask for reprint permission or may reserve all rights, for example. Only one meta tag with this keyword may be present. Page authors must not use more than one. A UA finding multiple such tags on one page must ignore all of them. The copyright symbol that would be generated by its character entity is not recommended for legal notice in source code when the word 'Copyright' may be used instead, because the entity may be read in raw form, but use is up to the page author. The same concept applies to any intellectual property rights symbol for which a suitable alternative is available, such as for trademark or service mark. ASCII text would not suffice when a name or notice legally may have to be in a non-Roman alphabet, but no alternative may yet exist in HTML5. Search engine storage may impose a length limit, but, because of legal consequences, if the value's length exceeds a given limit the search index should retain or interpret none of it but only refer to it. The content string may only be copied verbatim in its full length, referred to, or ignored. It may not be, for example, paraphrased, truncated, interpreted, or classified except in addition to being copied verbatim in its full length. Ignoring shall not void, nullify, or alter any rights stated in such tag. For the synonymy, IP, IP-rights, and IP-right are not reserved; while the abbreviation IP 'intellectual property' is common among attorneys in the U.S., page authors will more likely be computerate, and the abbreviation may be wanted for 'Internet Protocol'. |
Talk | Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec | |
| subj-. . . | To classify by subject a page's content, a standard subject taxonomy that will be recognized by a search engine or directory will help. Because many such high-quality taxonomies exist, only a prefix is proposed. Over time, particular taxonomies, in print or online, may be recognized here and keywords assigned for each. The keyword will be constructed case-insensitively with subkeywords in the form subj-[nationAbbrev]-[taxonomy]-[edition][-optionalSubedition], e.g., subj-US-MeSH-2009online (perhaps). After "subj-", the second subkeyword will identify the nation where the taxonomy is published or offered as an aid in identifying the taxonomy and does not limit the subject coverage; e.g., a taxonomy published in Japan may be ideal for classifying Canadian botany or Peruvian economy. As subject values may vary between editions of one taxonomy, an edition and optionally a subedition is to be identified in the third and optionally the fourth subkeywords. The subedition, if any, is any update or revision occurring between editions, such that a value drawn from that edition and subedition is stable. The means of identifying edition and subedition should be included in the registration of a keyword. Examples of taxonomies from the U.S. include MeSH (medical) and the Library of Congress Subject Headings. The value identifying a subject for a Web page will be drawn from the cited taxonomy's edition and subedition. If the value should have a style to prevent ambiguity in interpretation, that style is to be registered here for that keyword. Multiple values are expressed with multiple meta elements, one value for each, since comma-separation is probably not compatible with all taxonomies. If a value requires case-sensitivity to prevent confusion, the entry here registering the keyword must accommodate that need with the needs of HTML 5 with an appropriate rule. To that end, a proposal to allow case-sensitivity in meta tags under some circumstances has been offered in the W3C bug reporting system. |
W3C Bug 6854 | subject-. . . | Incomplete proposal | Lacks link to a spec, tries to register a space of names instead of enumerated names
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| nibbler-site-verification | Used to verify ownership of Nibbler site | Nibbler site | Incomplete proposal | Claimed spec link does not link to a spec | |
| MSSmartTagsPreventParsing | Microsoft introduced into Internet Explorer 6 Beta a feature that some website designers wished to preclude from applying in order to prevent public misunderstanding of their websites. The feature allowed a browser to add information but at a risk that users wouldn't know that it wasn't supplied by the website. This keyword was provided by Microsoft for those of us who wanted it. Its value was "TRUE". Microsoft spelled the keyword with some capitals and the value in all capitals but whether capitalization was required for either is unknown; some opinions vary. Since it need be understood by only one browser, and that one a beta version, full standards compliance should not be assumed, and original case may be required. (This tag is used by Google: "<meta content='true' name='MSSmartTagsPreventParsing'/>" appeared (with internal quote marks as singles) in the source code for <http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/listening-to-google-health-users.html>, as accessed 4-27-09.) Microsoft has apparently removed this instruction from its website on the ground that the beta version is no longer available and is not supported, but that doesn't assure that some users aren't still using the beta browser, perhaps inadvertently. Therefore, designers may wish to continue using the keyword and value and they are preserved here. |
e.g., The Register (U.K.), Univ. Oregon (U.S.) (PDF p. 18), & John Chambers (U.S.) (job résumé near root), all as accessed 4-19-09 | Incomplete proposal | Lacks spec, potentially never minted by MS as a meta name (as opposed to a http-equiv value), even if minted by Microsoft, abandoned before shipping in any final release of IE |
Failed Proposals
| Keyword | Brief description | Link to more details | Synonyms | Status |
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| cache | This doesn't actually work; use HTTP headers instead. Value must be "public", "private", or "no-cache". Intended as a simple way to tell user agents whether to store a copy of the document or not. An alternate for HTTP/1.1's cache-control; for publishers without access to modifying cache-control. |
none | Unendorsed | |
| no-email-collection | HTML5 prohibits URL-valued meta names. They should be rel keywords instead. Intended to reference legal policy of web site indicating that harvesting of e-mail addresses on the site is not permitted and in violation of applicable laws such as the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. |
Project Honey Pot | Unendorsed |
Process
For the "Status" section to be changed to "Ratified", the proposed keyword must be defined by a W3C specification in the Candidate Recommendation or Recommendation state. If it fails to go through this process, it is "Unendorsed".
For more details, see the HTML5 specification.