feat: Simplify <meta> element and charset attribute

jantimon · jantimon · commit 55313bee9b82 · 2018-06-03T13:27:27.000+02:00
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Obsolete_things_to_avoid BREAKING CHANGE: The default meta utf-8 declaration was changed to <meta charset="utf-8"/>
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ This will generate a file `dist/index.html` containing the following
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
   <head>
-    <meta charset="UTF-8">
+    <meta charset="utf-8">
     <title>Webpack App</title>
   </head>
   <body>
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ plugins: [
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
   <head>
-    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
+    <meta charset="utf-8"/>
     <title><%= htmlWebpackPlugin.options.title %></title>
   </head>
   <body>
diff --git a/default_index.ejs b/default_index.ejs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
   <head>
-    <meta charset="UTF-8">
+    <meta charset="utf-8">
     <title><%= htmlWebpackPlugin.options.title %></title>
   </head>
   <body>
diff --git a/examples/default/dist/webpack-4/index.html b/examples/default/dist/webpack-4/index.html
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
   <head>
-    <meta charset="UTF-8">
+    <meta charset="utf-8">
     <title>Webpack App</title>
   </head>
   <body>
diff --git a/examples/favicon/dist/webpack-4/favicon.html b/examples/favicon/dist/webpack-4/favicon.html
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
   <head>
-    <meta charset="UTF-8">
+    <meta charset="utf-8">
     <title>HtmlWebpackPlugin example</title>
   <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"><link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet"></head>
   <body>
diff --git a/examples/inline/dist/webpack-4/index.html b/examples/inline/dist/webpack-4/index.html
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title>Jade demo</title></head><body><style>body {
+<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>Jade demo</title></head><body><style>body {
   background: snow;
 }</style><script>/******/ (function(modules) { // webpackBootstrap
 /******/ 	// The module cache
diff --git a/examples/inline/template.jade b/examples/inline/template.jade
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 doctype html
 html
   head
-    meta(http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8")
+    meta(charset="utf-8")
     title #{htmlWebpackPlugin.options.title}
   body
     each cssFile in htmlWebpackPlugin.files.css
diff --git a/examples/template-parameters/dist/webpack-4/index.html b/examples/template-parameters/dist/webpack-4/index.html
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
   <head>
-    <meta charset="UTF-8">
+    <meta charset="utf-8">
     <title>bar</title>
   </head>
   <body>
diff --git a/examples/template-parameters/index.ejs b/examples/template-parameters/index.ejs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
   <head>
-    <meta charset="UTF-8">
+    <meta charset="utf-8">
     <title><%= foo %></title>
   </head>
   <body>
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/invalid.html b/spec/fixtures/invalid.html
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
   <head>
-    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
+    <meta charset="utf-8"/>
     <title>Test</title>
   </head>
   <body>
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/legacy.html b/spec/fixtures/legacy.html
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
   <head>
-    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
+    <meta charset="utf-8"/>
     <title>Test</title>
   </head>
   <body>
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/template.jade b/spec/fixtures/template.jade
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 doctype html
 html
   head
-    meta(http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8")
+    meta(charset="utf-8")
     title Demo
   body
     p Some unique text
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/test.html b/spec/fixtures/test.html
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
   <head>
-    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
+    <meta charset="utf-8"/>
     <title>Test</title>
   </head>
   <body>
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/webpackconfig.html b/spec/fixtures/webpackconfig.html
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
   <head>
-    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
+    <meta charset="utf-8"/>
     <title>Test</title>
   </head>
   <body>

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@`
`1`		`-<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title>Jade demo</title></head><body><style>body {`
	`1`	`+<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>Jade demo</title></head><body><style>body {`
`2`	`2`	`background: snow;`
`3`	`3`	`}</style><script>/******/ (function(modules) { // webpackBootstrap`
`4`	`4`	`/******/ // The module cache`