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I use frames on my website.
I have put the name of our website in the proper area in my index.htm file.
I have also put the same name in the other pages that make up the site.
Yet it still shows untitled page in the browser tab.

Any ideas?

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This is a common frameset quirk and the responders are on the right track. asked for code (helpful), pointed toward the page title, and correctly noted the top-level frameset usually controls what appears in the browser tab. When a title is present but the tab still reads "Untitled", deeper debugging is needed.

Useful diagnostics include inspecting the top-level (frameset) document rather than a child frame: view the frameset source and confirm the head contains a proper title element (not injected inside a frame). DevTools can show the live value of the title string so scripts and timing issues are visible. In the console the following values expose the current title in top-level and frame contexts:

window.top.document.title
document.title

Other causes worth checking: a script in a same-origin child frame may be overwriting the top document title; cross-origin frames cannot do this (same-origin policy), so domain differences matter. Server-side issues can also cause the browser to ignore the head (wrong Content-Type, a malformed head, or a BOM at the file start). Caching or a delayed script that sets an empty title can make the problem intermittent—use the Network panel, force-reload (Ctrl+F5), and test in another browser or private window.

Because frames are deprecated, consider migrating to modern layout techniques (CSS, server-side includes, single-page routing, or controlled iframes) to avoid browser inconsistencies. For reference, see the MDN notes on the frameset element and the document title behavior: frameset element and Document.title.

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Member Avatar for almostbob

first idea
post the code its easier to point and fix

Member Avatar for $urya

Very first you have to post the code to let others know about the problem.

Yet for your help, try to look for the <title> </title> tag in you head section of anyone/ both .htm files. If they aren't there put it for example :

<title> My Page Title</title>

else post your code to let us know the exact situation

Regards
Surya

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The title that shows up on the browser or elsewhere is generally generated by the title tags within the FrameSet page. Very rarely is it generated by the frame content itself but depending on the browser and the page load methods it can be.

Best solution, as indicated by $urya, make sure that all pages related to the "index" of your site contain an appropriate title tag. Though, as I said above, it should only be required of the frameset page.

Also, as indicated by almostbob, it's much easier for people to find and point out the issues related to code if they can see the code. For future reference it's a good idea to include either code snippets (in this case the header segments of your index related pages) or attach files (if your code snippets would be excessively large, you can zip the related files and attach the zip file).

Hope that helps :)

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