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Meta tags

msapplication-config

Legacy Internet Explorer metadata that points to browserconfig.xml for Windows pinned-site tiles. Modern Chromium-based Edge does not use it.

Code examples

Good example
<meta name="msapplication-config" content="/browserconfig.xml">
Points to the configuration file at the site root.
Good example
<meta name="msapplication-config" content="none">
Disables automatic browserconfig.xml discovery in supporting legacy browsers.
Avoid this example
<meta name="msapplication-config" content="">
An empty value neither points to a file nor disables discovery.

Recommendations

  • 01
    Treat It as Legacy
    Keep this only when you still support Internet Explorer pinned sites. Use a web app manifest for current install metadata.
  • 02
    Use none to stop discovery
    Internet Explorer checks /browserconfig.xml by default. Set this property to none when you want to stop that lookup.

Related documentation

Related meta tags

application-name

name

Gives browsers a short name for the web application represented by the page. A browser may use it instead of the page title in bookmarks or other interface labels.

<meta name="application-name" content="Zhead">
A short application name that stays useful when the page title changes.

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.

color-scheme

name

Tells the browser which color schemes the page can render. The browser can use this early, before the stylesheet loads, to choose a suitable canvas and native controls.

<meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark">
Declares support for both common schemes, with light listed first as the fallback preference.

default-style

http-equiv

Selects the preferred CSS style sheet set by name when a page offers alternate titled stylesheets. Browser support is limited.

<meta http-equiv="default-style" content="Main Style">
Valid when a linked stylesheet set has the exact title Main Style.

format-detection

name

An Apple extension that can stop Safari on iOS from turning text that looks like a telephone number into a call link.

<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
The value documented by Apple for disabling automatic telephone links in Safari on iOS.