Could not understand meta tag

#1

Unable to understand the use of meta tag and also the use of “charset” attribute in html

#2

@Swikrity94 meta tag is used in HTML to provide metadata about the html document. meta tags are typically used to specify character set, page description, keywords, author of the document, and viewport settings.
charset is used to specify the character encoding of the html document. Read more about charset here:
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_charset.asp