diff --git a/UltiSnips/html.snippets b/UltiSnips/html.snippets
index 31f7cc34d..5746feb65 100644
--- a/UltiSnips/html.snippets
+++ b/UltiSnips/html.snippets
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ endsnippet
 
 snippet head "XHTML <head>"
 <head>
-	<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"`!p x(snip)`>
+	<meta charset="utf-8">
 	<title>${1:`!p snip.rv = snip.basename or "Page Title"`}</title>
 	$0
 </head>
