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<title>

The page title: the text on the browser tab and in search results.

Syntax

<title>Page name</title>

Examples

The title goes inside <head>:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Contacts — The Bean coffee shop</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Look at the tab: the title is shown there, not on the page.</p>
  </body>
</html>

Notes

Keep the title short and unique for every page: first what the page is about, then the site name. Do not confuse the <title> tag with the title attribute, which shows a tooltip.

Related recipes

How to set the page title and description

In the tutorial

Document structure — The skeleton of an HTML page — doctype, html, head and body, the encoding, the tab title, viewport and your first index.html file.

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