Document the meta generator value

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+---
+title: '`<meta name="generator">` HTML attribute value'
+short-title: generator
+slug: Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta/name/generator
+page-type: html-attribute-value
+spec-urls: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#meta-generator
+sidebar: htmlsidebar
+---
+
+The **`generator`** value for the [`name`](/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta/name) attribute of the {{htmlelement("meta")}} element identifies software that generated the document.
+If specified, the software name is provided using the [`content`](/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta#content) attribute as a free-form string.
+
+For example, a static site generator called "ExamplePress" could identify itself in the generated document:
+
+```html
+<meta name="generator" content="ExamplePress 4.2" />
+```
+
+The `generator` value should not be used for documents whose markup was written manually rather than generated by software.
+
+## Usage notes
+
+A `<meta name="generator">` element has the following additional attributes:
+
+- [`content`](/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta#content)
+  - : A free-form string that identifies one of the software packages used to generate the document.
+
+## Examples
+
+### Identifying the document generator
+
+The following example indicates that the document was generated using WordPress 6.8:
+
+```html
+<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 6.8" />
+```
+
+## Specifications
+
+{{Specifications}}
+
+## Browser compatibility
+
+This metadata is descriptive, so browser compatibility does not apply.
+
+## See also
+
+- [Standard metadata names](/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta/name)