HTML: charset

Specifies the character set associated with the element.

Browser/User Agent Support

IE Netscape Mozilla Opera Safari
2.0+ 1.0+ 1.0+ 4.0+ 1.0+

IE	Netscape	Mozilla	Opera	Safari
2.0+	1.0+	1.0+	4.0+	1.0+

* Specify a character set not on this list.
ISO-8859-1 Default value for charset.

W3C HTML 4.01

*	Specify a character set not on this list.
ISO-8859-1	Default value for charset.