This worked - thank you for your help!
-dave
On Apr 7, 7:40 pm, Jonathan <jdd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you can't figure out a better way you can always do a setTimeout in
> the document.ready to call a function after a set delay to poll the
> document.title again.
>
> check_title = function() {
> alert(document.title);
>
> }
>
> setTimeout(check_title, 1000);
>
> On Apr 7, 4:09 pm, DaveT <dave.tru...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't exactly know where, in relation to the other Javascript. If
> > you look at the site I mentioned to Michael, my code is in an include
> > file that forms an outer part of the frameset, ie a visual page
> > header.
>
> > My code is in a jQuery document.ready function, so the DOM is loaded,
> > but I think you're right, that the other javascript hasn't finished
> > running, so the document.title hasn't been set yet.
>
> > I guess I need to figure out a way to have this code run after all the
> > other code has run. And I have no idea how to do that.
>
> > (I'm pretty new to Javascript, don't even have a debugger or anything,
> > just Firebug.)
>
> > Thanks for your thoughts!
>
> > -dave
>
> > On Apr 7, 6:27 pm, Jonathan <jdd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Like you suspect the title is probably getting set by javascript after
> > > it's loaded and you're just accessing it too soon. Where in your code
> > > are you doing 'var txt = docment.title'
>
> > > On Apr 7, 2:57 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
