HTMLElement: title property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The HTMLElement.title property represents the title of the element: the text usually displayed in a 'tooltip' popup when the mouse is over the node.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
const link = document.createElement("a");
link.innerText = "grapes";
link.href = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape";
link.title = "Wikipedia page on grapes";

Specifications

This feature is defined in the following specifications:

Browser compatibility

See also

  • The HTML title global attribute.