How to get the title of an HTML page ?
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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