HTML Reference Manual

HTML Tag Encyclopedia

The charset attribute specifies the character encoding of the linked document, the default character set of modern browsers is ISO-8859-1.

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

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

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Note:All mainstream browsers do not support the charset attribute.

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

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

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

<link charset="character_set">

Value	Description
character_set	Character encoding of the linked document. Common character sets include: UTF-8 - Unicode character encoding ISO-8859-1 - Character encoding of the Latin alphabet In theory, any character encoding can be used, but not all browsers can understand them. The more widely a character encoding is used, the more likely it is that browsers can understand it. To view all available character encodings, please visit our Character Set Reference Manual.