Changing Browser Title

**MattFS218** · Aug 11, 2001, 23:54

Right now I have a web page that loads two frames, a top frame that always stays the same (it displays a banner ad along with some search engine text) and a bottom frame which displays a different web page every time. I'd somehow like to set it up so the title displayed in the browser is the title of the html page shown in the second frame. Does anyone know how to do this, I assume with Javascript.

Thanks

Matt

**jkd** · Aug 12, 2001, 10:00

top.document.title=document.title;

**MattFS218** · Aug 15, 2001, 02:30

Hrm...I can't seam to get it to work....maybe I didn't explain my situation clearly enough

I setup a test url at
http://64.75.41.201/test.html

I want the document title to be "Yahoo!" (the <title> of the bottom frame).

If the bottom fram always changes .... how can I set the title of the web browser to the title of the bottom frame?

Thanks in advance.

Matt

**Rips** · Aug 15, 2001, 08:32

Yo,

Jkd's solution won't work because document.title is a read-only property.

So I figured you'd need to have some JavaScript execute inbetween the <title> and </title> tags that writes the frames[1].document.title property. Except this doesn't work, the code doesn't get executed, just displayed as the title. Doh!

Anyone think of anything else? This should be simple! Heh.

**jkd** · Aug 15, 2001, 08:59

document.title is mutable in IE4+/NS6. Try it, save this file onto your hard drive and view it:

Code:

<html>
	<head>
		<title>Original Title</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<a href="#" onclick="document.title='Overwritten title';return true">Click to Change Document's Title</a>
	</body>
</html>

It works fine.

**Vincent Puglia** · Aug 15, 2001, 09:12

Hi,

As jkd implied and Rips discovered, Netscape 4+ doesn't allow you to change the document's title. If you would like more information, see "The Title Property" snippet at my site.
Insofar as your problem, your only solution may be to reverse your frames so that the static frame is on the bottom.

Vinny

**MattFS218** · Aug 15, 2001, 11:51

Okay, so why does this not work.

<HTML>
<FRAMESET FRAMEBORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0 BORDER=0 ROWS="50,*">
<FRAME SRC="http://www.infoseek.com">
<FRAME SRC="http://www.yahoo.com" onLoad="document.title=frames[1].document.title;return true">
<NOFRAMES>
<BODY>
non frames
</BODY>
</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>

If i do an onLoad="document.title='dsfsdfsd';return true"
I can get dsfsdfsd as the title...but not the Yahoo! title.

Matt

**creole** · Aug 15, 2001, 12:53

Are you referencing the correct frame? The [1] indicates that you are actually referencing the 2nd frame. Javascript starts its counting from [0].

**Vincent Puglia** · Aug 15, 2001, 13:23

Hi Matt,

Does the phrase "Access is denied" ring a bell? If you put an alert in the onLoad (alert(document.title)) you will see a blank. If you add a title to your page <title>test</title> the alert will display 'test' -- anything else comes up with the access message. The implication? -- you do not have rights to put someone else's title on your page -- offhand, I would say that is a good thing.

Creole: his numbering is correct since he is attempting to assign yahoo's title (frame[1]) to the entire document.

Vinny

**MattFS218** · Aug 15, 2001, 14:13

Vincent,

Thanks for your help. If I reversed the frames (put the static page on bottom), is it possible to accomplish what I'm trying to do? Or is there a way to go out and manually parse the document for the <title> flag?

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