Chapter 15: Using Head Elements

About the document head (p. 318)

<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head>

Meta tags (p. 319)

<meta name="keywords" content="baseball, mom, apple pie">

To insert keywords (p. 323)

<meta name="keywords" content="Olympia Washington, theater, theatre, musical, rock opera, gothic, trance, Nomy Lamm, The Need, gender, transgender, vampires, globalization, conspiracy theory, globalization, corporate America, subversion">

To insert a page description (p. 325)

<meta name="description" content="Hanker for a hunk of cheese? Our hand-crafted goat cheddars and soy cottage cheese will really whet your appetite. Visit our store in Montpelier, Vermont, or order yourself or your family a gift from our virtual cheese counter.">

To insert a refresh tag (p. 327-328)

new page

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://www.digitalsf.org/">

and continuous

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30">

More Fun with http-equiv (sidebar, p. 329)

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Window-target" CONTENT="_top">

and

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">

and

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Wed, 21 Aug 2003 08:21:57 GMT">

Fading Fast: DHTML Page Transitions (sidebar, p. 330)

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Page-Enter" CONTENT="blendTrans(Duration=4.0)">

and
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Page-Enter" CONTENT="blendTrans(transition=12,duration=4.0)">

and

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Page-Enter" CONTENT="blendTrans(transition=4,duration=4.0)">

How to Make a Random Fade (sidebar, p. 331)

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
<!-
->
</script>

To insert a meta tag (p. 332)

<meta name="author" content="Joe Brainard">
<meta name="CreationDate" content="June 2, 2006">
<meta name="language" content="American English">

Pygmalion for Robots (sidebar, p. 333)

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

To insert a base href (p. 334)

<base href="../appendix/index.html" target="_blank">

Inserting a link descriptor (p. 336)

<TITLE>Part III: In Which Gertrude Loses Her Favorite Neckerchief and Discovers Herself</TITLE>
<LINK rel="prev" href="partii.html">
<LINK rel="next" href="partiv.html">

and

<link rel="stylesheet" href="../hh.css" type="text/css">

To insert a link (p. 338)

<link rel="index" href="../index.rdf" type="text/rdf">

Cookie, Cookie, Cookie, Cookie with Meta (sidebar, p. 355)

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="cookievalue=xxx; expires=Wednesday, 21-Aug-02 18:21:21 GMT; path=/">