When the Web page includes frames, the title bar displays the title of the document which contains the frameset. Documents providing the content of the frames may include their own titles in between <TITLE> and </TITLE>, but they don't affect the title bar.

You can manipulate the document's title via the document.title property. You can both set and use it in many different ways. A simple assignment may look like this:

document.title = "This is tip number 28 in July 2000";

You can now the write the document's title to the body of the document:

document.write("<CENTER><H1>" + document.title + "</H1></CENTER>");

The following line is the result of the above two JavaScript statements:

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