Meta tags always go inside head tag of the HTML page
Meta tags is always passed as name/value pairs
Meta tags are not displayed on the page but intended for the browser
Meta tags can contain information about character encoding, description, title of the document etc,
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="description" content="I am a web page with description">
<title>Home Page</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>