A title may refer to any of the following:

  1. In general, a title is a name or words describing something or someone. For example, an Internet browser displays each web page’s title at the top of the window in the title bar or tab. With this page, the title of this page is “What is a title?”

  2. When referring to HTML, opening and closingtags are used in the head section of source code to add a title to each page. In the following example HTML code, you can see that words “Example page” are surrounded with title tags, which would cause an Internet browser to display this as the page’s title.</p> </li> </ol> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Example page

    Tips to follow when creating a web page title

    • Be as specific as possible and include what is unique on the page.
    • Always use the most important keywords at the start of your title.
    • The maximum size of a title should be 70 characters.
    • Use no more than 10 to 12 words in your title.

    1. With an HTML attribute, title is an attribute that’s used with HTML tags like the IMG tag to give an image a description.

    2. When referring to a person, a title is position a person holds in a company. For example, CEO, CFO, CIO, COO, and manager are all examples of titles.

    • How to create a text description for an image in HTML.
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