Meta tags

creator

Adds a custom creator value to the document. The bare creator name has no standard HTML meaning, so it works only when a known consumer expects it.

Code examples

<meta name="creator" content="Jane Doe">

A sensible value when a documented integration expects a plain creator name.

<meta name="creator" content="Zhead Docs Team">

A team name can work when that is the value expected by the consuming system.

<meta name="creator" content="Admin">

A generic account label does not identify who created the page.

<meta name="creator" content="">

An empty custom metadata value gives its consumer nothing to use.

01
Prefer Standard Author Metadata
Use the standard author meta name for page authors. Use creator only when an integration documents this exact metadata name.
02
Follow the Consumer Contract
Custom metadata has no shared value format. Match the syntax required by the tool that will read it.

Declares the character encoding used by the HTML document. In modern HTML, the value must be UTF-8.

<meta charset="utf-8">

The required character encoding for modern HTML.

name

Adds a custom creator value to the document. The bare creator name has no standard HTML meaning, so it works only when a known consumer expects it.

<meta name="creator" content="Jane Doe">

A sensible value when a documented integration expects a plain creator name.

name

Names one of the software packages that generated the HTML document. Leave it out when a person wrote the markup directly.

<meta name="generator" content="Nuxt">

Names the software that generated the document.

name

Marks a page as containing sexually explicit adult content so Google can filter it in SafeSearch. It is not a general age rating system.

<meta name="rating" content="adult">

The simple value Google recommends for a page with sexually explicit content.