Can't get meta information with jQuery

Question

Any ideas why on a website I can't get <meta> informations ?

I'm using:

$.find("meta[name='description']").attr("content");

To get:

<meta name="description" content="My description">

Why I could not retrieve these datas ?

Any ideas ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

find it in head tag

 $("head").find("meta[name='description']").attr("content");

Answer 2

Pass jQuery the selector directly and retrieve the value of the content attribute like so:

$('meta[name="description"]').attr("content");