The Meta object represents an HTML <meta> element.
We can access a <meta> element by using getElementsByTagName()
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Click the button to get the content of the meta information.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta name="description" content="this is a test"> </head>//from w w w . j a va 2 s . c o m <body> <button onclick="myFunction()">Test</button> <p id="demo"></p> <script> function myFunction() { var x = document.getElementsByTagName("META")[0].content; document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x; } </script> </body> </html>