HTML in Title — Browser Incompatibility

  • apatheticresistance

    (@apatheticresistance)


    15 years, 11 months ago

    Hi everyone. I have a browser compatibility question… Please don’t all run away!

    I have this website where we need to use italics in the post titles (to show latin names). I tried just putting the <em> tags in the post title, and at first nothing seemed to show up. In other words, the entire title would show up as a normal font, despite half of it being wrapped in em tags.

    I recently realised that Firefox does show the italicized title. In Safari and Chrome, the title is not italicized, even though the proper tags are there.

    I just thought I would post this to see if anyone else has come up against this before? And if anyone has an idea of what might be happening here?

    Here’s an example link for you to check it out: http://www.urbanmonitoring.ca/?p=800

    Thanks!
    Trevor

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  • flamenco

    (@flamenco)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    Trevor, that’s pretty radical, I’ve never heard anyone ask that one before. 🙂 I would wager that generally there’s no browser support for fonts on the browser title area. IMO, the title area is for navigation, not for presentation at all. I can imagine the developer conversation… what if someone uses font size of 300px for that… do we want the browser bar to resize? Not really. So they probably dropped it and other styling. All except FF. That’s my theory.

    I hope you don’t take offense, but I can’t see a good reason for it, even if it does look somewhat nicer that way. You can put that material in your content and style the bejesus out of it so it looks nice there.

    Sorry, that’s not what you wanted to hear.

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