Copy title into keywords meta tag

[enzis]

Hi guys! I had googled for a while with no luck, so I wanted to see if anyone here may have some answers.

I've got a website with several pages that need their title and meta descriptions modified. To make this easier, I would like to JUST modify the title, and have the title automatically copied into the meta description tag. This is sometime I heard was possible by adding a start, like so:
<meta name="description" content="*" />

I had tried this and it doesn't seem to work. If anyone's got any thoughts it would be much appreciated.

[redsox9]

That depends. If you are using PHP, then it's possible to code your pages so that the title and description both have the same content. If you have static HTML pages, however, you will need to make this change one page at a time.

[enzis]

I see. That confirms my suspicions. May I also ask what the purpose of using a star in meta tags is? as in something like ' descriptions="*" '

[felgall]

May I also ask what the purpose of using a star in meta tags is? as in something like ' descriptions="*" '

I assume it means that someone has created the meta description tag but hasn't yet got around to working out what description to put there and so has simply put a * there as a placeholder until they come up with an appropriate description. Of course a site might be using their own internal script where that has a special meaning but to most search engines whatever is in the description meta tag is what they display immediately below the page title in their results.