How to add some HTML <meta> tags to a page via a layout.xml file?

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dmitrii_fediuk (Dmitrii Fediuk) May 8, 2017, 11:02pm 1

The real examples from the core

1. Magento_Theme/view/frontend/layout/default_head_blocks.xml

github.com

magento/magento2/blob/2.1.6/app/code/Magento/Theme/view/frontend/layout/default_head_blocks.xml#L10-L10


<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>

2. app/design/frontend/Magento/blank/Magento_Theme/layout/default_head_blocks.xml

github.com

magento/magento2/blob/62667cb6/app/design/frontend/Magento/blank/Magento_Theme/layout/default_head_blocks.xml#L13-L13


<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"/>

3. app/design/frontend/Magento/luma/Magento_Theme/layout/default_head_blocks.xml

github.com

magento/magento2/blob/2.1.6/app/design/frontend/Magento/luma/Magento_Theme/layout/default_head_blocks.xml#L10-L10


<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no"/>

4. app/code/Magento/Backend/view/adminhtml/layout/default.xml

github.com

magento/magento2/blob/62667cb6/app/code/Magento/Backend/view/adminhtml/layout/default.xml#L11-L12


<meta name="viewport" content="width=1024"/>
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"/>

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dmitrii_fediuk (Dmitrii Fediuk) May 8, 2017, 11:09pm 2

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