HTMLTitleElement

The HTMLTitleElement interface contains the title for a document. This element inherits all of the properties and methods of the HTMLElement interface.

Properties

Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement.

HTMLTitleElement.text: A string representing the text of the document's title, and only the text part. For example, consider this:

<!doctype html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Hello world! <span class="highlight">Isn't this wonderful</span> really?</title>
    </head>
    <body></body>
</html>

let title = document.getElementsByTagName('title')[0];
console.log( title.text ); // yield: "Hello world!  really?"

As you can see, the tag span and its content were skipped.

Methods

No specific method; inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement.

Example

Do not confuse: document.title with document.getElementsByTagName('title')[0]

The former is just a setter/getter method to set or get the inner text value of the document title, while the latter is the HTMLTitleElement object. So you cannot write: document.title.text = "Hello world!";

Instead, you can simply write: document.title = "Hello world!"; which is an equivalent to document.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].text = "Hello world!";

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard # htmltitleelement

Browser compatibility

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