I don't have a test page outside my firewall, but the system I'm
working with is Webworks ePublisher, and an example of a site
generated by this tool is here:
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/oitdocs/TimeCollectionHelp/Time%20Collection%20Help/Output/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm
It takes awhile to load, but you can see it's a frameset, and there's
a javascript runtime that manages the frameset and how things are
loaded into it. I'll elaborate a bit further in response to Johnathan
below.
-dave
On Apr 7, 5:57 pm, "Michael Geary" <m...@mg.to> wrote:
> document.title *is* the way to do that. You have a case where it doesn't
> work? Now I'm curious - I'd sure like to see a test page if you have one.
>
> -Mike
>
> > From: DaveT
>
> > I'm working with a fairly complex page that is heavily
> > controlled by some Javascript that's external to my code. I'm
> > trying to read the document's title text, first trying to use
> > straight Javascript, ie:
>
> > var txt = document.title;
>
> > And while this works on a simple page (where the title is set
> > by the document's head > title tag), it doesn't work on the
> > more complex Javascript-controlled page. I suspect the
> > Javascript is setting the browser's title bar property rather
> > than using the title tag.
>
> > So I thought I'd try using jQuery to get this, using code like this:
>
> > var jQtxt = $('head > title:first').text();
>
> > It's trying to do the same thing as the first example, but
> > oddly doesn't seem to work on IE even with a simple page.
>
> > So my question boils down to:
>
> > What's the simplest rock-solid way to get the browser's
> > titlebar text that works in both IE and Firefox?
>
> > Appreciate any help!
>
> > -dave
