HTML charset Attribute - HTML Attribute

Definition and Usage

When used by the <meta> element, the charset attribute specifies the character encoding for the HTML document.

When used by the <script> element, the charset attribute specifies the character encoding used in an external script file.

The HTML5 specification encourages web developers to use the UTF-8 character set, which covers almost all of the characters and symbols in the world!

Applies to

The charset attribute can be used on the following elements:

Elements	Attribute
<meta>	charset
<script>	charset

Browser Support

The charset attribute has the following browser support for each element.

How to Specify the character encoding for the HTML document

See the example.

index.html

Example: HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>

<body>
<h1>My Website</h1>
<p>Some text...</p>
</body>

</html>

Output should be:

How to add An external JavaScript with an UTF-8 character set

The script charset attribute.

index.html

Example: HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<h1>The script charset attribute</h1>

<script charset="UTF-8" src="demo_script_charset.js">
</script>

<p>The Greek characters display correctly because they are part of the "UTF-8" character set.</p>
<p>Try changing character sets to "ISO-8859-1" (default), "windows-1252" or "UTF-16".</p>

</body>
</html>

Output should be:

html charset attribute

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