How to get current html page title with javascript

Question

I'm trying to get the plain html page title with javascript.

I use firefox and with

document.title 

I get extra "- Mozilla Firefox" to the end of the title. I know it would be easy to get rid of this by modifying string but if they change text, use different format etc or some other browser modifies this differently I have extra text there again.

So, is there any cross browser way to get the plain tag content with javascript? Jquery solution is ok.

Answer 1

One option from DOM directly:

$(document).find("title").text();

Tested only on chrome & IE9, but logically should work on all browsers.

Or more generic

var title = document.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].innerHTML;

Answer 2

try like this

$('title').text();

Answer 3

Like this :

jQuery(document).ready(function () {
    var title = jQuery(this).attr('title');
});

works for IE, Firefox and Chrome.