The Additional <HEAD> Content setting in your blog control panel allows you to specify additional HTML codes to go into the <HEAD> section of the HTML for all the pages in your weblog.

This feature allows you to integrate Javascripts or additional "meta tags" into the HTML source code of your weblog. The Additional <HEAD> Content setting is located at Settings & Security > Publishing Defaults > General in your control panel.

Here is a screenshot of what the content of this field might look like when the HTML codes which cause a browser to display your weblog using the UTF-8 character set:

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This is a screenshot which shows what the content of this field might look like when you have added an external Javascript file to your weblog and want it to load everytime your blog pages load:

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The purpose of this setting is not to provide a means to add content to be displayed on the Header of your blog. So you should not enter plain text into the field, like this:

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If you wish to modify the header of your blog, you should create a custom component and add it to your blog Layout.

Some web browsers might display the plain text you enter here, but it is likely that the layout of your blog will be negatively affected. Additionally, search engines may get confused when they encounter plain text where they expected HTML codes, and the ranking of your site in search engine results would suffer.

We suggest using the Additional <HEAD> Content field only for linking to your Javascript code and adding additional meta tags or HTML comments, and not for entering text intended to be displayed on your blog.