Webmonkey » wiki template Content-type http://www.webmonkey.com The Web Developer's Resource Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:20:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Content-Type http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/content-type/ http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/content-type/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:45:47 +0000 Webmonkey Staff http://stag.wired.com/primate/?p=810

Every web page should declare a content type. This tells the browser what language and character set to expect when rendering the text and ensures that characters are displayed properly on the page.

Content type declarations go in the <head> of your document.

This is a standard content type declaration: 

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>


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