What is the DOM title property?

Overview

In this shot, we will learn how to use the DOM property to get or set the title of any element.

The DOM title property provides us a way to get the title when applied to the HTML element. We can also use title to set the title of the HTML element.

When you give a title to an element, you need to assign a value to the element.title property.

Code

Let’s use the title property on a p tag and give it a title.

Code explanation

• In line 5, we have a P element with text to display.

• In line 7, we have a paragraph tag with id elem and a title attribute.

• In line 9, we write a button tag with a change() function, which will be called when the user clicks on it.

• In line 12, we write the JavaScript code in the script tag. We define a change() function that will be called after a click from the HTML page.

• In line 13, we use document.getElementById() and pass id elem in the change() function to get the p element and get the element object.

• In line 14, we apply the title property on the element object we get above and store the return value in a variable.

• In line 15, we print the value returned by the title property on the console.

Output

When we click the button, the console prints the title we assigned to the p element with id elem. We have successfully used the title property.