How do I get Internet Explorer 8 to display every single web page with its own title?
I want the full URL of the web page I am viewing to be displayed in the title bar, and so in the task bar button too.
Windows XP and IE8. Tabbed Browsing is off.
You can not change the built-in behaviour of a web browser when it is written to display the text contained in the <title>
tags of an HTML document.
That said, the following bookmarklet works in Firefox, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome, but unfortunately does not work(*) in any version of Internet Explorer from 6 through 8 that I tested it in:
javascript:void(window.document.title=window.location.href);
(*) - It actually does seem to set document.title
to the requested value in Internet Explorer, but does not update the titlebar.
Your options for Internet Explorer at this point are:
<script>document.title=window.location.href</script>
immediately before </body>
for every document.<title>
of the top-level frameset document yourself.