<title>

Every page must have a title. Make sure the title makes sense out of context; the title Introduction, for example, is no use because it does not give any indication of the subject matter.

You cannot add highlighting, paragraphs or anchors to a title.

Internet Explorer displays this in the title bar of the browser window. Netscape displays the title in the title bar and in bookmark lists. The title might also appear in history lists.

You should only use this tag within the <head> tag. You must enter the end-tag.

For example:

<head>
<title>"How to create HTML pages"</title>
</head>

Attributes

dir=ltr|rtr

Specifies the direction of text. This can be left-to-right (ltr) or right-to-left (rtl). For example, English characters are presented left-to-right, Hebrew characters are presented right-to-left.

lang=language

Specifies which language the <title> tag uses. You can enter any valid ISO standard language abbreviation, for example, “en” for English, “de” for German and so on. For example, <span lang="es">hola! como esta?</span>.

This attribute helps search engines understand different languages as different languages rather than just misspelled English. It may also help spelling and grammar checkers and allow speech synthesizers to use language-dependent pronunciation rules.

title=text

For information only. Some browsers display the title when you move the mouse over the tag (like a tool tip).