<title>
- description
- Defines the title of the current HTML document. The title usually displays
within the browser window's title bar or on a status line. With most browsers
it becomes the default name if the page is bookmarked.
- viewable in
- Netscape 2, 3, 4, 6
- Internet Explorer 2, 3, 4, 5
- Opera 3
- WebTV
- HTML 4.0, 3.2
- attributes
- end tag
- </title> REQUIRED
- contents
- Plain text and HTML encoded special characters. The following tags are valid within the <title> tag:
None
- valid context
- The <title> tag is valid within the following tags:
head
- examples
<head>
<title>A Descriptive Title</title>
</head>
- special notes
- A descriptive title will improve any page you create, it is usually the
first thing a reader sees about the page, so it should be short but clear.
- Search engines use the title as the link.
- Most browsers use the title for the default name on the bookmarks, so you
want your title to make sense out of context. For example, all the titles on
the HTML site @ About.com include the name of the site "HTML" and "About.com".
- Common style uses the title as the main headline of the page as well.
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