just a little question.
How long can a website title be?
Like this one:
Optimal title length. Google typically displays the first 50–60 characters of a title tag. If you keep your titles under 60 characters, it will display your Title Properly and i hope this answer help you..
If you're talking about the <title> element, this is actually an interesting question - there is no set maximum but there is a guidance from W3C that :
Whilst there is no limit on the length of a title (...), information providers are warned that it may be truncated if long.
Also stating <title> text content should not exceed 64 characters (in 1992).
Reading the specs. for HTML4 and HTML5, and reading browser inspectors on this page and others, the <title> text is simply a text field and various HTML command structures are not agknowledged within it.
So; the outcome is that the title element can be as long as you like, but you have no guarentee that any part after the first 64 characters would be agknowledged by any particular browser, reader or other end point user.
References:
W3 Title Element Meta Data
W3 Title Element Style Guide
MDN Title Element
W3 Document Metadata
W3 DOM text content
UPDATE:
I have just generated a random text block of 30kb characters and this was loaded into an HTML page and output in full by the browser. Moreover, this was not invalid when parsed against the HTML5 validator.
Look - it's a Title, not an essay - keep it short, descriptive and punchy and you'll have no problems. Ultimately it is limited by whatever browser you use - and you could waste a significant part of your life testing all possibilities. My tip is: keep it simple - you probably can't predict the width of the screen / browser.
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I have just started learning HTML from W3Schools. I tried my first code and even if I change my title in my HTML code, it doesn’t make any difference. The resulting page remains the same.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>HTML lesson 1</h1>
<p>My name is John</p>
</body>
</html>
What difference does it make if I use a random title? what effect will it have?
Look on w3.org at http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/TITLE.html
It is well explained. Quoting it:
(bolding mine)
The title of a document is specified by the TITLE element. The TITLE element should occur in the HEAD of the document.
There may only be one title in any document. It should identify the content of the document in a fairly wide context.
The title is not part of the text of the document, but is a property of the whole document. It may not contain anchors, paragraph marks, or highlighting. The title may be used to identify the node in a history list, to label the window displaying the node, etc. It is not normally displayed in the text of a document itself. Contrast titles with headings . The title should ideally be less than 64 characters in length. That is, many applications will display document titles in window titles, menus, etc where there is only limited room. Whilst there is no limit on the length of a title (as it may be automatically generated from other data), information providers are warned that it may be truncated if long.
The reason why you don't see any changes in the browser's window title is because the "try it" examples in W3Schools are run in elements called "IFRAME" (you'll learn about them later). The window's title changes according to the tag when the HTML is displayed in that window (not in any nested IFRAME). In W3Schools you are probably reading "Tryit Editor v2.5" instead of the title specified in the HTML because the "main" HTML's title tag contains that string. Try right-clicking anywhere in the page and click "View Source" and check the tag's content.
Most browsers put the <title> in the title of the window or tab.
As explained in previous answers, the title tag is the title of a document and will usually show up on the tab/window of whatever browser is displaying it.
More noteworthy in these days, though, is that the title tag is what many search engines use to display your pages in their search results. Furthermore, the words used in the title of a page are crucial to optimize your position in the search engine rankings (read more about search engine optimization (SEO) online).
Here's an only slightly validated page for more information:
Title Tag
Title tags are one of the most important elements of on-page SEO. They are used by browser tab titles, saved bookmark descriptions, search engine result pages (SERP) and increasingly by social media sites when linking to web pages.
Search engine results page (SERP) displaying the title in a large font.
A missing <title> element from a page will result in an invalid HTML page. You can use Google’s HTML Improvements tool to identify any missing title tags on your website.
I successfully imported meta description from a Wordpress blog to my new Hubspot COS by modifying WordPress export tool's php code , however with this workaround, HubSpot automatically adds paragraph tag (<p>) around the meta description.
Any idea if those tags can affect SEO or any aspect of my website?.
Can i just ignore them?
It's a paragraph tag which might consume some space.
You don't really need such codes in the header.
To reduce the clutter for the search engines you can just get rid of it.
This is not a valid HTML, meta tag content type is : text
As a meta-description can only have text as value, your content is literally:
<p>Our monthly installment […] shoots.</p>
This is what consumers (like search engines) see and work with, e.g., what might be shown in snippets on SERPs.
In the source code, Outlook.com has this:
<title>Outlook.com - [my email address]</title>
However, when the page is run in a browser it displays with the title underlined in a browser tab:
I am running Firefox 33.0 on Windows XP, however this persists on Firefox 33.0.2 on Windows 7.
How is this possible? There doesn't seem to be any CSS rules defined for the title tag. Is it even possible to style the title tag?
The answer to your question of is it possible to style the tag is no.
From W3C:
The title of a document is specified by the TITLE element. The TITLE
element should occur in the HEAD of the document.
There may only be one title in any document. It should identify the
content of the document in a fairly wide context.
The title is not part of the text of the document, but is a property
of the whole document. It may not contain anchors, paragraph marks, or
highlighting. The title may be used to identify the node in a history
list, to label the window displaying the node, etc. It is not normally
displayed in the text of a document itself. Contrast titles with
headings . The title should ideally be less than 64 characters in
length. That is, many applications will display document titles in
window titles, menus, etc where there is only limited room. Whilst
there is no limit on the length of a title (as it may be automatically
generated from other data), information providers are warned that it
may be truncated if long.
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The browser however could style it tho I'm not sure why they would. I cannot replicate this as I'm using a mac and have a Windows 8 VM, but I would guess the browser handles some URL's differently.
do you have Webmail notifier installed? LINK
I'm creating a very simple form that has a text area. The text area takes in a formatted block of names separated by newlines. To make the application slightly more useable, it would be nice if I could include a placeholder example that had multiple lines of text. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be possible with the HTML5 specification. Does anybody know why?
<placeholder> is like <blockquote> to me. It has a specific niche.
In the case of the <placeholder> attribute, it's mainly used in one-line form fields; not text areas.
How often do you use a carriage return in a one-line form field? Never.
The <placeholder> attribute represents a short hint (a word or short phrase) intended to aid the user with data entry. A hint could be a sample value or a brief description of the expected format. The attribute, if specified, must have a value that contains no U+000A LINE FEED (LF) or U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN (CR) characters.
Since HTML5 is still fresh, new, and continues to be optimized and tweaked in various browsers; who knows what crazy things would happen cross browser-wise if the <placeholder> attribute didn't have such strict guidelines set up?
The web seems to be moving in the direction to help designers/developers type less code, and make less mistakes.
I've seen a few posts (by people like Paul Irish and Jeffrey Way) talking about omitting things like closing tags, and many standard elements have been modified in HTML5 to be shorter/easier (e.g.<!doctype html>). Also, what used to be traditional attributes required to make a webpage function well can now be easily thrown out all together. The web is getting simpler, and more complex at the same time.
All in all though, if you're wanting something to fix the dilemma (that you are seemingly suffering from by the tone of your question), then just use the <title> attribute instead. Refer to the selected answer in the question located at the following link:
Can you have multiline HTML5 placeholder text in a <textarea>?
When giving title to a web page is it possible to change the font of the title?
for example:
<html>
<title> Question </title>
</html>
Now if i want to set the font of title 'question' to be what i want,then how can i do it?
No. See the standard.
Titles may contain character entities (for accented characters, special characters, etc.), but may not contain other markup (including comments).
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.2
No it's not possible with all of the most commonly used browsers.
This is not possible. The only special thing you can do with title text is changing the text direction between left-to-right and right-to-left
I presume you'd like to add style to the title as it appears in the Search Engine results? Alas, web crawlers don't support this functionality (though one of either category could actually be built to support title styles). However, you can achieve a distinct look by using non-ASCII characters (IPA or Greek or Russian) or punctuation.
If you're looking for a distinct look in your title in the browser window (e.g. in the tab) a custom favicon may be of use (it's the tiny image that appears in the browser next to your title). This thread discusses how to do that: How do I put image in url in HTML?