HTML Element: <title>
[this page | pdf | back links]
The HTML <title> element indicates the title
for the document. It appears in the <head> part of
the document. It typically identifies the page title that appears in a browser
toolbar, the page title that is by default added to a user’s list of favourite
pages within a browser and usually is the title shown for the page in search
engine results.
The attributes
it can take are HTML
global attributes and HTML event attributes.
To
create or access such an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods. It also supports the following additional
properties:
|
Property
|
Description
|
More
|
|
text
|
Sets
/ returns text of document title
|
Here
|
The default style
applicable to this element is shown here.
EXAMPLE:
HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head>
<title>Title Element</title>
</head>
<body>
Created using HTML:<br>
<span>webpage has title created by HTML</span>
<br><br>Created using JavaScript:<br>
<span id="element"></span>
<script>
var x = document.getElementsByTagName("TITLE")[0]
var s = x.text;
var s2 = document.title
document.getElementById("element").innerHTML = 'which is "' + s + '"'
+ '<br>or (using a different way of accessing the title) "' + s2 +'"';
</script>
</body>
</html>
|
NAVIGATION LINKS
Contents | Prev | Next | HTML Elements