HTML Page Title <title> Element
By Christopher Kielty, Published Jan 21, 2019, Updated Jan 24, 2019
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
...
The title of a webpage is made by placing text within opening <title>
and closing </title>
tags. This is typically displayed near the top of the browser window, often in a tab. In Safari 12, <title>
is employed as the default text when a page is bookmarked and I imagine this is probably the same or similar in other browsers. Title isn't the same thing as the main heading, but often whatever I'm putting in my <h1>
I'm also putting in my <title>
-- or something similar. Page titles like to go in the metadata <head>
element -- not <header>.
HTML tags within the <title>
element will probably be ignored. To get tags to just appear in the title, like on this page, use entity names/numbers for the opening <
and closing >
brackets.
<title>Page Title <title> Element</title>