Gatsby: Where is this extra viewport tag coming from? Is this a bug?

[jcontonio]

I have a very basic Gatsby site, using only react-helmet, not the Gatsby React Helmet plugin, as I want total control of my meta tags. Here is my Gatsby plugins list:

plugins: [
    `gatsby-plugin-sass`,
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-source-filesystem`,
      options: {
        name: `images`,
        path: `${__dirname}/src/images`,
      },
    },
]

Something, somewhere, is sticking in the charset, viewport, and http-equiv into my documents and shouldn't be. Any ideas?

[arthurjdam]

These are part of the wrapper defined in html.js, and for varying reasons considered best practice.
If you want to change or remove these, take a look at Customizing html.js

[LekoArts]

Thank you for opening this!

As Arthur said we include those as they are considered best practice and necessary for every site. I wouldn't recommend changing those, however the linked doc would explain how to do it.

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