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clifford · 10-22-2005, 05:22 PM

Hello everyone,

I am validating my HTML pages at http://validator.w3.org/

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type".......

I was just wondering what does is exaclty do, I assume it tells the browser something. Any ideas?

Alex · 10-22-2005, 11:23 PM

Search does wonders:

http://www.html-reference.com/META_httpequiv_type.htm

clifford · 10-23-2005, 09:16 AM

Okay I was just wondering if it was needed or not. I would think these setting would be set at server side not client side. I have had many pages without it. But when I used this validator it complained it was not present. thanks for link..