>peter said: >> it prevents Netscape Navigator from caching a page locally > >cool. what about other browsers? Since this is well off topic, all I can do is refer you to two web resources: Meta tag tutorial: <http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatags.html> Meta tag resource page: <http://webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatag_res.html> The use of Meta Tags is evolving. As the standards change, so do the way the browsers implement them. Also, propriety browsers may introduce "propriety" standards. These may come into common usage and affect decisions about future implementations of the W3C standard. That is why Netscoop 4.x and Exploder 4.x implemented pragma differently. You are going to have to do a web search to see how versions 5 and 6 of these browsers cope with pragma. (I don't know). Peter mailto:peter@... "Through our efforts, oneness perfects itself" - William Gibson - Idoru