Understanding page titles

In HTML, a title is displayed in the browser's title bar. The information displayed here is set in the <HEAD> section of the HTML, in the <TITLE> tag. For example, the following code will display "This is the title" in the title bar of the browser:

<HTML> 
<HEAD> 
<TITLE>This is the title</TITLE> 
</HEAD> 
<BODY>This is body text. 
</BODY> 
</HTML> 

In all HTML templates, the title attribute is set automatically by copying the content of the first major heading into the <TITLE> attribute. The following paragraph styles include the BBCheckTitle building block, which checks to see whether a title has been set for the page; if not, Publisher assigns the content of the current paragraph to the title attribute:

If no title is set using one of these paragraph styles, the title is set to the file name of the generated HTML page.


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