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HTML <link> charset Attribute

❮ HTML <link> tag

Example

The charset attribute indicates that the linked document is written in Japanese:

<link href="domoarigato.htm" rel="parent" charset="ISO-2022-JP">


Definition and Usage

The <link> charset attribute is not supported in HTML5.

The charset attribute specifies the character encoding of the linked document.

The default character-set for modern browsers is ISO-8859-1.


Browser Support

Attribute
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Syntax

<link charset="character_set">

Attribute Values

Value Description
character_set The character encoding of the linked document.

Common values:

  • UTF-8 - Character encoding for Unicode
  • ISO-8859-1 - Character encoding for the Latin alphabet

In theory, any character encoding can be used, but no browser understands all of them. The more widely a character encoding is used, the better the chance that a browser will understand it.

To view all available character encodings, go to our Character sets reference.


❮ HTML <link> tag