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charset attribute (a, link, meta, script)

Browser support:
Sets the character encoding of the document, a linked document or a script block.
If you want to specify the character encoding of the document:
in HTML5, use the charset attribute of the meta element,
in other document types, use the http-Equiv attribute with the value of 'content-type' and content attribute of the meta element.
For details, please see Example 1 and 2 and the page for the !DOCTYPE element.
JavaScript page for this attribute: charset. You can find other example(s) there.

Possible values:

Sets the character set. For more information, see the page for character sets.
Default: this attribute has no default value.

Example HTML code 1:

This example shows how to set the character encoding of the document in HTML5:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
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Example HTML code 2:

This example shows how to set the character encoding of the document in document types other than HTML5:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
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Example HTML code 3:

This example illustrates the use of the charset attribute:
<script type="text/javascript" src="example.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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