Cannot edit my own meta description on my own page

[mackenzie27]

I am having a strange problem. I have a page that I am updating. Every change I make can be seen when I refresh the page – EXCEPT for the meta description tag. Whatever I change it, the meta description remains the same when I reload the page and look at the source code. Even when I delete the meta tag entirely, the page still loads with the original meta tag.

This happens in Chrome but not in Safari.

I always knew that Google might hold onto obsolete meta descriptions in their search results, but I never knew they would actually rewrite my Web page so that it continues to use an old description.

Is there no way I can get my page to load in Chrome with the meta tag information that I have given it?! This is the first time I have ever seen a browser actually change the content that I am trying to upload.

I am having trouble researching this problem because all the discussion seems to concern how Google changes meta Descriptions in its search results. But that is not my problem. In my case, Google is changing the meta description directly on my Web page. It is not allowing me to update or even delete the meta description tag.

[phdr]

What are the old and new values? Is this a public web page that you can post a link to?

I suspect you have an error in the markup on the page and different browsers deal with it in different ways, and the old value is a common default value that Chrome is filling in when it cannot find valid markup containing a value.

[mackenzie27]

I can see no errors in the markup. The updated meta description showed when I viewed the page in Safari. In Chrome, the meta description did not change after I updated it.

However, when I looked at the page in Chrome several hours later, the description was updated to match my changes.