title | short-title | slug | page-type | browser-compat |
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Document: title property |
title |
Web/API/Document/title |
web-api-instance-property |
api.Document.title |
{{APIRef("DOM")}}
The document.title
property gets or sets the current title of the document.
When present, it defaults to the value of the <title>
.
A string containing the document's title. If the title was overridden by setting document.title
, it contains that value. Otherwise, it contains the title specified in the <title>
element.
document.title = newTitle;
newTitle
is the new title of the document. The assignment
affects the return value of document.title
, the title displayed for the
document (e.g. in the titlebar of the window or tab), and it also affects the DOM of the
document (e.g. the content of the <title>
element in an HTML
document).
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>Hello World!</title>
</head>
<body>
<script>
alert(document.title); // displays "Hello World!"
document.title = "Goodbye World!";
alert(document.title); // displays "Goodbye World!"
</script>
</body>
</html>
{{Specifications}}
{{Compat}}