# Interface HTMLMetaElement

All Superinterfaces:
  `Element, HTMLElement, Node`

public interface HTMLMetaElement extends HTMLElement
This contains generic meta-information about the document. See the META element definition in HTML 4.0.

See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specification.

Since:
  1.4, DOM Level 2

## Field Summary

### Fields declared in interface Node

`ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE`

## Method Summary

Modifier and Type
Method
Description
`String`
`getContent()`
Associated information.
`String`
`getHttpEquiv()`
HTTP response header name.
`String`
`getName()`
Meta information name.
`String`
`getScheme()`
Select form of content.
`void`
`setContent(String content)`
`void`
`setHttpEquiv(String httpEquiv)`
`void`
`setName(String name)`
`void`
`setScheme(String scheme)`

### Methods declared in interface Element

`getAttribute, getAttributeNode, getAttributeNodeNS, getAttributeNS, getElementsByTagName, getElementsByTagNameNS, getSchemaTypeInfo, getTagName, hasAttribute, hasAttributeNS, removeAttribute, removeAttributeNode, removeAttributeNS, setAttribute, setAttributeNode, setAttributeNodeNS, setAttributeNS, setIdAttribute, setIdAttributeNode, setIdAttributeNS`

### Methods declared in interface HTMLElement

`getClassName, getDir, getId, getLang, getTitle, setClassName, setDir, setId, setLang, setTitle`

### Methods declared in interface Node

`appendChild, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserData`

## Method Details

### getContent

String getContent()
Associated information. See the content attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

### setContent

void setContent(String content)

### getHttpEquiv

String getHttpEquiv()
HTTP response header name. See the http-equiv attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

### setHttpEquiv

void setHttpEquiv(String httpEquiv)

### getName

String getName()
Meta information name. See the name attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

### setName

void setName(String name)

### getScheme

String getScheme()
Select form of content. See the scheme attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

### setScheme

void setScheme(String scheme)