How would I output the title of an entry in ExpressionEngine and display it in the browser's title bar?
Here is the content of my page's header:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test Site</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{stylesheet=site/site_css}" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
What I need is for each page to display the title of the entry in my browser's title bar — how can I achieve that?
Here is how i have done it :
{exp:channel:entries channel="news_articles" status="open|Featured Top Story|Top Story" limit="1" disable="member_data|trackbacks|pagination"}
{embed="includes/document_header" page_title=" | {title}"}
<body class="home">
<div id="layoutWrapper">
{embed="includes/masthead_navigation"}
<div id="content">
<div id="article">
<img src="{article_image}" alt="News Article Image" />
<h4>{title}</h4>
<h5><span class="by">By</span> {article_author}</h5>
<p>{entry_date format="%M %d, %Y"} -- Updated {gmt_edit_date format="%M %d, %Y"}</p>
{article_body}
{/exp:channel:entries}
</div>
What do you think?
If you want to show just the name of your ExpressionEngine site (as defined in CP Home > Admin > General Configuration) use the site name global variable:
<title>{site_name}</title>
If you want to display just the current entry title from a given channel use the following:
<title>
{exp:channel:entries channel="channel_name" limit="1" dynamic="yes"}
{title}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</title>
Many Web Developers will use an Embed Variable with an Embedded Template to pass the `{entry_title} to a global embed template, allowing for a dynamic page title:
{embed="includes/header" title="{exp:channel:entries channel="{channel_name}"}{title}{/exp:channel:entries}"}
If you're using EE2, the SEO Lite Module takes care of all the hard work for you with a single line of code:
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
{exp:seo_lite url_title="{url_title}"}
</head>
Other solutions include the Low Title Plugin (EE1, EE2).