<title> in the body (I know it"s wrong)
am 28.07.2007 20:57:34 von Paul Furman
I know it's wrong but it works: putting the
in the body of the <br />
document inside another <head> because I'm generating this with php & <br />
kind of boxed myself into not having access to the text I want till I <br />
get well into the body, for example:<br />
http://edgehill.net/gallery/photo-update/6-24-07/pg1pc1<br />
I noticed that duplicate titles have no effect.<br />
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Also, regarding length, the W3C folks say<br />
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/TITLE.html<br />
"Whilst there is no limit on the length of a title (as it may be <br />
automatically generated from other data), information providers are <br />
warned that it may be truncated if long."<br />
<br />
I have no problem with truncating, the alternative would be for me to <br />
truncate it myself. I'm gathering the titles from photo annotations <br />
which are sometimes a long paragraph of text like:<br />
http://edgehill.net/gallery/cameras/pg1pc3<br />
<br />
Mozilla strips this to a about 300 characters:<br />
1) Gitzo G1298 tripod with Linhoff LN9051 ball head 2) TC-14E AF-S <br />
teleconverter 3) TC-20EII AF-S teleconverter 4) Tokina 300mm f/2.8 MF <br />
(most of that is lens shade & teleconverters 5) MC-20 release 6) 105mm <br />
f/2.8 AF-S VR Micro 7) Nikon D200 8) 135mm f/2<br />
<br />
IE7 strips it to about 100 characters:<br />
1) Gitzo G1298 tripod with Linhoff LN9051 ball head 2) TC-14E AF-S <br />
teleconverter 3) TC-20EII AF<br />
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Paul Furman Photography<br />
http://edgehill.net<br />
Bay Natives Nursery<br />
http://www.baynatives.com</p>
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<h2>Re: <title> in the body (I know it"s wrong)</h2><span>am 28.07.2007 23:42:39 von Shion</span>
<p>Paul Furman wrote:<br />
> I know it's wrong but it works: putting the <title> in the body of the<br />
> document inside another <head> because I'm generating this with php &<br />
> kind of boxed myself into not having access to the text I want till I<br />
> get well into the body, for example:<br />
> http://edgehill.net/gallery/photo-update/6-24-07/pg1pc1<br />
> I noticed that duplicate titles have no effect.<br />
<br />
The effect depends on the browser, most browsers are made to correct the ill<br />
written code that many WYSIWYG generates and badly written scripts as in your<br />
case.<br />
<br />
You should not echo out everything as soon as you have generated or fetched<br />
the data, you can store things in variables and have the html generation last<br />
<br />
<?PHP<br />
//do here what you need to fetch your data<br />
//and store it into variables like<br />
$mysqli = new mysqli_connect('localhost','root','','database');<br />
$result=$mysqli->query('select title from table where page='{$_GET['page']}');<br />
list($title)=$result->fetch_array();<br />
?><br />
<html><br />
<title><? $title ?>
Something