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Meta tags

generator

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

Code examples

Good example
<meta name="generator" content="Nuxt">
Names the software that generated the document.
Good example
<meta name="generator" content="ExamplePress 4.2">
A product name and version are valid when ExamplePress generated the markup.
Avoid this example
<meta name="generator" content="Jane Doe">
A person belongs in author metadata, not generator metadata.
Avoid this example
<meta name="generator" content="">
An empty tag identifies no generator and should be omitted.

Recommendations

  • 01
    Name the Actual Generator
    Use the package name, and include a version only when that detail helps tooling or diagnostics.
  • 02
    Do Not Use It as a Signature
    This metadata is for software that generated the document, not the author, publisher, or framework used only at runtime.

Related documentation

Related meta tags

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

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

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

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.