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