{"id":37654,"date":"2019-08-22T18:17:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=37654"},"modified":"2019-08-21T21:17:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:17:18","slug":"head-cheatsheet-html-tag-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/head-cheatsheet-html-tag-list\/","title":{"rendered":"This Cheatsheet Lists Every Tag You Can Put into  &lt;head&gt; Element"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every web page has a <strong>document header<\/strong> and there\u2019s <em>a lot<\/em> that goes in there. WordPress users often rely on SEO plugins to <strong>handle the complex meta tags<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you\u2019re coding a theme from scratch you may want to <strong>expand your document header a bit<\/strong>. There are literally <strong>hundreds of tags<\/strong> you can use each with their own subtle purpose and <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gethead.info\/\">Get Head Info<\/a><\/strong> is the only cheatsheet you need on this topic.<\/p>\n<p>It <strong>lists every tag<\/strong>, organized by a table of contents based on the most common solutions used by web developers. You can also find this list <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/joshbuchea\/HEAD\">on GitHub<\/a><\/strong> where it started as a simple repo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\"><strong>Read Also:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/meta-tag-hidden-features\/\">5 Things You Can Do With HTML Meta Tag<\/a><\/p>\n<figure><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gethead.info\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/head-cheatsheet-html-tag-list\/01-head-cheatsheet.jpg\" alt=\"HTML head tag cheatsheet\" width=\"855\" height=\"870\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The main site is a <strong>separate entity<\/strong> maintained by the creator <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/joshbuchea.com\/\">Josh Buchea<\/a>. But, the GitHub repo is <strong>open for pull requests<\/strong>, so other developers can add tags or recommend changes.<\/p>\n<p>You can actually see a <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/joshbuchea\/HEAD\/graphs\/contributors\">list of contributors<\/a><\/strong> on the official GitHub repo. This repo has grown so large that it\u2019s been <strong>translated to a handful of languages<\/strong> such as Japanese, Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a <strong>quick breakdown<\/strong> of the contents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minimum required header tags<\/li>\n<li>Page elements (stylesheets, scripts)<\/li>\n<li>Meta tags<\/li>\n<li>Link tags<\/li>\n<li>Social tags (Open Graph)<\/li>\n<li>Special browser tags for mobile app support<\/li>\n<li>Extra\/Miscellaneous<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This thing is huge with literally <strong>hundreds of tags<\/strong> to go through. Each one has an <strong>HTML comment above the tag<\/strong>, so you know exactly what it does and why you\u2019d use it.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a <strong>complete beginner<\/strong> starting out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/sites-to-learn-coding-online\/\">learning to code websites<\/a> then this resource will prove invaluable to the process. Take a peek at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gethead.info\/\">main site<\/a> and keep it bookmarked for future reference.<\/p>\n<figure><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gethead.info\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/head-cheatsheet-html-tag-list\/02-github-head-tags-reference.jpg\" alt=\"Get Head Info header cheatsheet\" width=\"967\" height=\"808\"><\/a><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every web page has a document header and there\u2019s a lot that goes in there. 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