description metadata

You can declare description metadata to offer a short description or summary of your webpage which search engines and web directories may show in the listing for your webpage.

Note that there is no guarantee that search engines will use the description that you provide. Mouse does. Google is known to use it sometimes and at other times generate a snippet from your webpage automatically.

Example

@ description: An exhaustive documentation of cashews (Anacardium occidentale) found in peanut packages sold in rural Alabama, May–July 1995. Includes 17 photos of cashew nuts.

For developers

If description metadata is declared, the Aneamal Translator adds a meta element with the name description to the HTML output. So the example above becomes:

<meta name='description' content='An exhaustive documentation of cashews (Anacardium occidentale) found in peanut packages sold in rural Alabama, May–July 1995. Includes 17 photos of cashew nuts'>