Providing a title using the title element

ID: H25

Technology: html

Type: Technique

When to Use

HTML

Description

All HTML documents, including those in frames, have a title element in the head section that defines in a simple phrase the purpose of the document. This helps users to orient themselves within the site quickly without having to search for orientation information in the body of the page.

Note that the (mandatory) title element, which only appears once in a document, is different from the title attribute, which may be applied to almost every HTML element.

Examples

This example defines a document's title.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>The World Wide Web Consortium</title>     
  </head>
  <body>
      ...   
  </body> 
</html>

Tests

Procedure

  1. Examine the source code of the HTML document and check that a non-empty title element appears in the head section.
  2. Check that the title element describes the document.

Expected Results

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