Javascript Reference - HTML DOM title Property

The title property sets or gets the element's advisory title.

Syntax

HTMLElementObject.title=title

Browser Support


`title`	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Example 1

The following code shows how to get the title attribute of the body element.


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body id="myid" title="mytitle">
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<script>
    var x=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
    document.write("Body title: " + x.title);
    document.write("<br/>");
    document.write(document.getElementById('myid').title);
</script>

</body>
</html>

The code above is rendered as follows: