Can I give a title tag a color and different font?

Question

I was wondering if there is a way to give a page title a different color and font in the page tab. Something like:

title{ color: red; font: 12px tahoma;} 

Just thought it would be fun to add into sites. I tried the above and it didn't work in my CSS file. Also tried giving it a class="title"giving it a CSS style of .title{ color: red; font: 12px tahoma;} but that didn't work either.

Solution 1

Answer is NO you cannot do that in any way....you cannot apply any styles to page title, btw you can just blink the titles

Blinking Titles

More Info On CSS Which You Are Using:

If you are declaring something like this

title{ color: red; font: 12px tahoma;} 

You don't need to define any class as you are targeting specific title tag which is only 1 in your whole document

And if you are using .title than your CSS should be

.title{ color: red; font: 12px tahoma;} 

Solution 2

The previous answers are correct, but, you can sort of get different fonts if they are defined in unicode. I don't know how to explore this, but, for example, there's the regularly written word javascript and then there's this title I coped from reddit.com/r/javascript source code: 𝚓𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚝 - notice how they are slightly different.

Regular without code delimiters: javascript

Reddits title without code delimiters: 𝚓𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚝

You can copy past these characters anywhere and they are going to look different, because they are technically _different characters. There's a and then there's 𝚊 - I grabbed this from the javascript word I previously pasted.

I don't know where these characters came from. I don't know how to type them. I don't know where one could copy paste them from.

But it proves an interesting point - any emoji can be used in these titles, you can copy paste from https://www.emojicopy.com/

Solution 3

If you are talking about the <title></title> section then no you can't style it.

If you are talking about the title of a page as in a header tag such as h1 or h2 then yes you can style those using normal CSS styling techniques such as

.title { color: #1A1A1A }

<h1 class="title">My Awesome Title</h1>

Solution 4

You can style the <title> tag, just add "display:block" or "display:inline" to it.

title {
    display:block;
    color:red;
    font:12px tahoma, serif;
}

that way it should appear inside your page with the same content of the tab on the browser, for instance.

As for the Page Title, i have seen that it is possible to style it, someway. probably with shadow dom.

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Comments

[absolute neXus]

Yes, I tried it both ways. Hence I gave it a class="title" .title in CSS. I was reading up on title tags and it said somewhere that it could read a class but not the tag itself. So I listed thing I had tried... I didn't think that if it wouldn't read the tag then it would read a class but I had to try it. Thank you for your help!

[absolute neXus]

Ah, my rank isn't high enough to do the voting yet. I have a question about the blinking title. I see that it calls up two different messages. Does this effect SEO in any way? I know that titles are one of the first things that a search bot crawls, so I was wondering if it takes any of that away by using the Javascript?

[absolute neXus]

Thanks @ryan but that is not what I am talking about. I was talking about an actual <title></title> tag.

[Ryan McDonough]

@absoluteneXus sorry, that was in my answer, added the code tag around the title tags so it shows.

[LuckyLuke Skywalker]

Makes sense not to enable it: would be a bit confusing when browsing, especially when having many tabs open. As 'cool' as it could maybe be for some few websites.