Add meta tag

[J1C]

How can I programatically add meta tags with javascript?

[Martin Honnen]

Re: Add meta tag



J1C wrote:
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> How can I programatically add meta tags with javascript?[/color]

The same way you create and add other elements, with the W3C DOM:
var meta;
if (document.creat eElement &&
(meta = document.create Element('meta') )) {
// set properties
meta.name = "God";
meta.content = "Kibo";

// now add the meta element to the head
document.getEle mentsByTagName( 'head').item(0) .appendChild(me ta);
}

See also
<http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-37041454>


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Martin Honnen

http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Grant Wagner]

Re: Add meta tag

"J1C" <just1coder@yah oo.ca> wrote in message
news:1116251622 .895823.132270@ g44g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=blue]
> How can I programatically add meta tags with javascript?[/color]

In browsers that support it:

var meta = document.create Element('meta') ;
meta.name = 'author';
meta.content = 'Your Name';
document.getEle mentsByTagName( 'head')[0].appendChild(me ta);

However, since the META tag data is mostly for the benefit of search
engines, what does appending a META tag after the page is loaded buy
you? For example, the following doesn't work in IE:

var meta = document.create Element('meta') ;
meta.setAttribu te('http-equiv', 'imagetoolbar') ;
meta.setAttribu te('content', 'no');
document.getEle mentsByTagName( 'head')[0].appendChild(me ta);

Even though <META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoo lbar" CONTENT="no"> does suppress
the image toolbar.

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Grant Wagner <gwagner@agrico reunited.com>
comp.lang.javas cript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq

[J1C]

Re: Add meta tag

great - thanks!