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title: "creator · Meta Tag · zhead"
canonical_url: "https://zhead.dev/meta/creator"
last_updated: "2026-08-19T02:35:55.891Z"
meta:
  description: "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."
  "og:description": "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."
  "og:title": "creator · Meta Tag · zhead"
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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

Good example

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

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

Good example

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

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

Avoid this example

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

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

Avoid this example

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

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

## Recommendations

- 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.

## Related documentation

- [HTML Living Standard: Semantics](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#other-metadata-names)
- [wiki.whatwg.org: MetaExtensions](https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions)

## Related meta tags

### [charset](https://zhead.dev/meta/charset)

charset

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.

### [creator](https://zhead.dev/meta/creator)

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.

### [generator](https://zhead.dev/meta/generator)

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.

### [rating](https://zhead.dev/meta/rating)

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.