Character limit of <TITLE> tag these days?

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Laphan - 26 Jul 2008 19:03 GMT

Hi All

Noticed with IE7 that there is a definite char limit when it comes to the
<TITLE> tag being added to Favs.

Does anybody know if this is definitely the case and what the actual limit
is?

Thanks

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Chaddy2222 - 28 Jul 2008 09:33 GMT

> Hi All
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> Thanks

The <title> tag is ment to discribe the content of the page. So your
title tags should not be that long.
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Regards Chad. http://freewebdesignonline.org

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Mark Goodge - 28 Jul 2008 20:30 GMT

>Hi All
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>Does anybody know if this is definitely the case and what the actual limit
>is?

I don't know at what point IE7 truncates it, but the HTML
specification states that long titles may be truncated by clients and
that a recommended maximum is 63 characters.

http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/TITLE.html

Mark

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Character limit of <TITLE> tag these days?