Set » HTML entity in JavaScript's document.title?

Question

I\'m setting document.title with JavaScript, and I can\'t find a way to supply » (») without it appearing as literal text.

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Answer 1

Try

document.title = 'Home \u00bb site.com';

Generally you can look up your special character at a site like this and then, once you know the numeric code, you can construct a Unicode escape sequence in your JavaScript string. Here, that character is code 187, which is "bb" in hex. JavaScript Unicode escapes look like "\u" followed by 4 hex digits.

Answer 2

document.title takes the string as it is, so you can do this:

document.title = 'Home » site.com';

If you need to provide it as the entity name, you can set the innerHTML attribute. Here are two examples of how you can do it.

document.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].innerHTML = '»';
// or
document.querySelector('title').innerHTML = "»";

Answer 3

Javascript does not use HTML entities.

You should simply use the actual » character in your string, and make sure that the file is saved and sent as UTF8.