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HTMLMetaElement: name property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The HTMLMetaElement.name property is used in combination with HTMLMetaElement.content to define the name-value pairs for the metadata of a document. The name attribute defines the metadata name and the content attribute defines the value.

Value

A string.

Examples

Reading the metadata name of a meta element

The following example queries the first <meta> element in a document. The name value is logged to the console, showing that keywords have been specified for the document:

// given <meta name="keywords" content="documentation, HTML, web technologies">
const meta = document.querySelector("meta");
console.log(meta.name);
// "keywords"

Creating a meta element with `author` metadata

The following example creates a new <meta> element with a name attribute set to author. The content attribute sets the author of the document and the element is appended to the document <head>:

let meta = document.createElement("meta");
meta.name = "author";
meta.content = "Franz Kafka";
document.head.appendChild(meta);

Specifications

Specification
HTML> # dom-meta-name>

Browser compatibility

	Desktop					Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`name`	1	12	1	≤12.1	1	18	4	≤12.1	1	1.0	4.4	1