Changes in HTML 5 - <meta/> Tag

What's new in HTML 5

Differences between HTML 5 and HTML 4 / xHTML

• The <meta charset="..."/> tag should no longer be used because it is supported only for the purpose of migrating from xHTML.

In ployglot HTML documents the <meta/> tag is coded as a self-closing tag the same as in the 2000-2010 Recommendations from the W3C HTML Working Group. Those specifications changed the ending delimiter to /> from > in older recommendations. They also defined the HTML namespace for the meta element type name and the names of other HTML element types.