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.

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<!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>

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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.











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<!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> 



















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