title (attribute)

The title global attribute contains text representing advisory information, related to the element it belongs to. This information can be typically, but not necessarily, presented to the user as a tooltip. Some typical uses:

• Link: title or description of the linked document
• Media element like an image: description or associated credits
• Paragraph: footnote or a commentary about it
• Quotation: information about the author, and so on.

If this attribute is omitted, it means that the title of the nearest ancestor of this element is still relevant (and could be used as the tooltip for that element). If this attribute is set to the empty string, it explicitly means its nearest ancestor's title is not relevant (and shouldn't be used in the tooltip for this element).

Additional semantics are attached to the title attributes of the <link>, <abbr>, <input> and <menuitem> elements.

The title attribute may contain several lines. Each U+000A LINE FEED (LF) inserted represents such a newline. Some caution must be taken, as this means:

<p>Newlines in title should be taken into account,like this <abbr title="This is a
multiline title">example</abbr>.</p>

This example defines a two-line title.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• All global attributes.
• HTMLElement.title that reflects this attribute.