How to get the title of an HTML page ?

Difficulty Level : Easy
Last Updated : 11 Jun, 2019

The task is to get the title of the HTML document using javascript. There is a number of ways to do this But Here a few of the most preferred techniques are discussed.

Example 1: This example gets the title of document by using document.title property.

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  
<head>
    <title>
        JavaScript 
      | Get the title of HTML page.
    </title>
</head>
  
<body style="text-align:center;"
      id="body">
    <h1 style="color:green;">  
            GeeksForGeeks  
        </h1>
    <p id="GFG_UP" 
       style="font-size: 19px; 
              font-weight: bold;">
    </p>
    <button onClick="GFG_Fun()">
        click here
    </button>
    <p id="GFG_DOWN" 
       style="color: green;
              font-size: 24px;
              font-weight: bold;">
    </p>
    <script>
        var up = document.getElementById('GFG_UP');
        var down = document.getElementById('GFG_DOWN');
        up.innerHTML =
          'Click on button to get the title of HTML document';
  
        function GFG_Fun() {
            down.innerHTML = document.title;
        }
    </script>
</body>
  
</html>

Output:

Before clicking on the button:
After clicking on the button:

Example 2: This example gets the title of document by first selecting the title by tag name and then taking the element at index 0. using document.getElementsByTagName() method.

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  
<head>
    <title>
        JavaScript | Get the title of HTML page.
    </title>
</head>
  
<body style="text-align:center;" id="body">
    <h1 style="color:green;">  
            GeeksForGeeks  
        </h1>
    <p id="GFG_UP" style="font-size: 19px; 
              font-weight: bold;">
    </p>
    <button onClick="GFG_Fun()">
        click here
    </button>
    <p id="GFG_DOWN" style="color: green; 
              font-size: 24px;
              font-weight: bold;">
    </p>
    <script>
        var up = document.getElementById('GFG_UP');
        var down = document.getElementById('GFG_DOWN');
        up.innerHTML =
            'Click on button to get the title of HTML document';
  
        function GFG_Fun() {
            var title = document.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
            down.innerHTML = title.innerHTML;
        }
    </script>
</body>
  
</html>

Output:

Before clicking on the button:
After clicking on the button:

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