How to get the information from a meta tag using JavaScript ?

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

To display meta tag information in HTML with JavaScript, we will use a method called getElementByTagName() function.

Method 1: Using getElementsByTagName() method.

Syntax:

document.getElementsByTagName("meta");

With this, we can get all the meta elements from an HTML file. As we click on the button, all the meta tag names and content will be displayed on the web page.

Example 1:

html

<body>
    <meta name="description" content="GeeksforGeeks Article">
    <meta name="keywords" content="GeeksforGeeks,GfG,Article">
    <meta name="author" content="Aakash Pawar">
    <button onclick="GfGFunction()">
        Click Here!
    </button>
    <br>
    <div id="demo">
        <h2>Content of Meta Tag</h2>
    </div>
    <script>
        function GfGFunction() {
        var meta = document.getElementsByTagName("meta");
        for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
            document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML +=
            "name: <b>"+meta[i].name+"</b> and content: <b>"
            +meta[i].content+"</b><br>";
        }
        }
    </script>
</body>

Output:

How to get the information from a meta tag using JavaScript?

Method 2: Using getElementsByTagName() method with index specification.

Syntax:

var meta = document.getElementsByTagName("meta")[0];

Here, the index number ‘0’ represents the first meta element. You can consider all the meta element in an HTML file as an array and can access them by specifying the index of the meta tag. This way, we can get specific meta elements from an HTML file.

Example 2:

html

<body>
    <meta id="author" name="description" content="GeeksforGeeks Article">
    <meta id="author" name="keywords" content="GeeksforGeeks,GfG,Article">
    <meta id="author" name="author" content="Aakash Pawar">
    <h1 style="color:green">GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <button onclick="GfGFunction()">Click Here!</button>
    <br>
    <div id="demo">
        <h2>Content of Meta Tag</h2>
    </div>
    <script>
        function GfGFunction() {
        var meta = document.getElementsByTagName("meta")[0];
        document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML +=
            "name: <b>"+meta.name+"</b> and content: <b>"
        +meta.content+"</b><br>";
        }
    </script>
</body>