HTMLTitleElement: text 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 text property of the HTMLTitleElement interface represents the child text content of the document's title as a string. It contains the <title> element's content as text; if HTML tags are included within the <title> element, they are included as part of the string value rather than being parsed as HTML.

Setting a value for the text property replaces the entire text contents of the <title>.

Value

A string.

Examples

Consider the example below:

html
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en-US">
  <head>
    <title>
      Hello world! <span class="highlight">Isn't this wonderful</span> really?
    </title>
  </head>
  <body></body>
</html>
js
const title = document.querySelector("title");
console.log(title.text); // "Hello world! <span class="highlight">Isn't this wonderful</span> really?"
title.text = "Update the title";

As you can see, the span tag remained unparsed; the <title> element's contents were treated as plain text and returned exactly as they appear in the title element.

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-title-text-dev

Browser compatibility

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