HTMLElement: title property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The HTMLElement.title property represents the title of the element: the text usually displayed in a 'tooltip' popup when the mouse is over the node.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
const link = document.createElement("a");
link.innerText = "grapes";
link.href = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape";
link.title = "Wikipedia page on grapes";

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-title

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also

  • The HTML title global attribute.