What are meta tags..?

[mtgfanboy]

A meta tag is an element that provides information about the metadata of an HTML document. This information could be the keywords, author, page description or any other details about the specific page.

[sithub19]

A meta tag is an HTML tag that describes the content on a web page. Meta tags can be viewed by selecting View/Source from the menu of a browser.

[sndev]

Meta tags are headings that define content. Moreover, Meta Tags are important for SEO technique. It will use to optimize the website's data.

[ademar]

Meta tags are used to place metadata ( metadata ) in an HTML page. This information will be placed in the element headand will not be displayed on the page.

Who is this information for? Well, to all the tools that can exploit them. And especially:

to web browsers
search engines;
more broadly, to all indexing tools, that is to say, all the tools that analyze your pages to identify various information.

[shoppingswag]

Meta tags are snippets of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that describes the contents of a Web page. Website in simple and easy steps starting from its overview, basic tags, Meta tags, attributes, formatting, and phrase.

[Servers Base]

Metadata is data (information) about data.
The <meta> tag provides metadata about the HTML document. Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable.
Meta elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata.
The metadata can be used by browsers (how to display content or reload page), search engines (keywords), or other web services.

[sonamg]

The title, description and url of the page is called meta tag.