Questions about <Title>

townsend · 04-03-2013, 11:28 AM

From the menu bar, under Tools Metadata Editor--

I entered the title of my book here, when I started my book, and it has been used in all new xhtml documents. That's fine.

But then I changed the title, and now all new xhtml documents continue to use the old title.

Am I doing something wrong, or should I report this as an Issue.

exaltedwombat · 04-03-2013, 12:59 PM

How did you make it do that? I never get anything automatically put in <title></title>, whatever's in te metadata!

townsend · 04-03-2013, 02:20 PM

I just ran a test on a new document. Yes. That's odd. Now the <title></title> tag is ending up blank, no matter how many documents I add.

theducks · 04-03-2013, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by townsend

I just ran a test on a new document. Yes. That's odd. Now the <title></title> tag is ending up blank, no matter how many documents I add.

AFAIK <title> is optional in EPUB
<title> is used to label the Page Frame in HTML (Like on the Browser you are using)
Title in the Metadata (OPF) is required an can be set using F8 in Sigil

exaltedwombat · 04-03-2013, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

AFAIK <title> is optional in EPUB
<title> is used to label the Page Frame in HTML (Like on the Browser you are using)

Does any reader pick up <title> and use it as a page header? Sometimes I'm asked for this. If it EVER works it could be worth including to keep a client happy, even if most readers won't display it. :-)

DiapDealer · 04-03-2013, 03:09 PM

I know of no epub reader that uses <title>.
Of course it's trivial to put something relevant in there, so I usually do.

04-03-2013, 11:28 AM	#1
townsend Enthusiast Posts: 29 Karma: 6366 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: Sigil	Questions about <Title> From the menu bar, under Tools Metadata Editor-- I entered the title of my book here, when I started my book, and it has been used in all new xhtml documents. That's fine. But then I changed the title, and now all new xhtml documents continue to use the old title. Am I doing something wrong, or should I report this as an Issue.

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04-03-2013, 12:59 PM	#2
exaltedwombat Guru Posts: 878 Karma: 2457540 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: none	How did you make it do that? I never get anything automatically put in <title></title>, whatever's in te metadata!

04-03-2013, 02:20 PM	#3
townsend Enthusiast Posts: 29 Karma: 6366 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: Sigil	I just ran a test on a new document. Yes. That's odd. Now the <title></title> tag is ending up blank, no matter how many documents I add.

04-03-2013, 03:09 PM	#6
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,357 Karma: 203720150 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	I know of no epub reader that uses <title>. Of course it's trivial to put something relevant in there, so I usually do.