HTML Standard attribute: charset
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The HTML charset attribute specifies the
character encoding to use. It applies to <meta> and <script> elements.
Common values for this
attribute include:
-
UTF-8: the character encoding for Unicode
-
ISO-8859-1: the character encoding for the Latin alphabet
It can be overridden for
a specific element by setting the lang attribute of
that element. The charset
attribute is new in HTML 5 and replaces the need to set the content type via
HTML such as: <meta
http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8"> (although using the http-equiv
approach is still allowed).
Valid attribute
values (when used with <meta> and <script> elements)
include:
|
Value
|
Description
|
|
character_set
|
The character encoding
for the document
|
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