HTML DOM title Property
Definition and Usage
The title property sets or returns the element's advisory title.
Syntax
Example 1
The following example shows two methods on how to get the title attribute of the <body>
element:
<html>
<body id="myid" title="mytitle">
<script type="text/javascript">
x=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
document.write("Body title: " + x.title);
document.write("<br />");
document.write("An alternate way: ");
document.write(document.getElementById('myid').title);
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Body title: mytitle
An alternate way: mytitle
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Example 2
The following example returns the advisory title of an area in an image-map:
<html>
<body>
<img src ="planets.gif"
width="145" height="126"
alt="Planets"
usemap ="#planetmap" />
<map name ="planetmap">
<area id="venus" shape="circle"
coords ="124,58,8"
title="Venus"
href ="venus.htm" />
</map>
<p>Venus' advisory title (mouse over the Venus planet):
<script type="text/javascript">
x=document.getElementById('venus')
document.write(x.title)
</script>
</p>
</body>
</html>
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Try-It-Yourself Demos
Return
the title attribute of the <body> element
Return
the advisory title of an area in an image-map
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