Updating header title - can't get it right

[haggisv]

I'm trying to change the title of my page (header title shown top left of browser page).
On my home page I want:
forum_name

Within a forum I want:
topics_name - forum_name

Within a thread I want:
thread_title - forum_name

This is what i have in my overall_header.html

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<title>{PAGE_TITLE} <!-- IF S_IN_MCP -->{L_MCP} . " - " <!-- ELSEIF S_IN_UCP -->{L_UCP} . " - " <!-- ENDIF -->{SITENAME}</title>

All the right bits are there with this code, but I can't get it to space out with " - " in between... it just puts a single space in between the terms.

Can anyone advice?

[Oyabun1]

Browsers tend to collapse white space, so if you want some extra spaces in there you will probably need to use the HTML element   rather than entering a space with your keyboard.

[haggisv]

Tried it.. it still doe snot seem to work!

This is the code

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<title>{PAGE_TITLE} <!-- IF S_IN_MCP -->{L_MCP}. &nbsp; . "-" . &nbsp; <!-- ELSEIF S_IN_UCP -->{L_UCP}. &nbsp; . "-" . &nbsp; <!-- ENDIF -->{SITENAME}</title>

All it does is put a single space in between... it ignores the other space and the "-"

I've tried it on both firefox and IE8

[Oyabun1]

If you want multiple 3 spaces enter    .

[haggisv]

No I want a space-dash-space (ie " - ") in between them...why does it not work???

[Oyabun1]

Sorry, I just reread your post again. The reason that it's not working is you are changing the wrong code. If it's the words that are displayed on the page and not the actual page title element that you want to change then the code to change, assuming a prosilver based style, is in the line below

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			<ul class="linklist navlinks">

in overall_header.html.

The <title> element of a HTML page is not displayed on the page.

[haggisv]

The page title is shown at the top left of the browser bar. Yes I do want to change the page "title" element. I'm using subsilver2.

[haggisv]

Anyone please?

[Mick]

Can you post EXACTLY how you want it to appear in plain text please? Also, for general HTML programming questions you can also try the w3schools HTML tutorial, there are tons of examples.

[haggisv]

OK, I just want the title element of a page to be as follows:

For posts
posts title - forum name

For catagories

catagory - forum name

For example for my own forum (called OOAK Table Tennis Forum) in a post called "Best table tennis blades", I want it to read:

Best table tennis blades - OOAK Table Tennis Forum

Yes I've brushed up on my HTML, but it simply does not seem to work...

[Brf]

The place you have edited the extra spaces is for the UCP and MCP. If you want to change the actual PAGE_TITLE then you have to edit the PHP file when it calls page_header

[haggisv]

I'm afraid that PHP code for that is beyond my skills... If you're willing to take a look into that, I would very much appreciate it!

[HGN]

Could you explain with a screenprint what you are trying to achieve.
The code you mention will modify the text shown in the tab of the browsersheet.
Following works for me:

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<title>{PAGE_TITLE}&nbsp;-&nbsp;<!-- IF S_IN_MCP -->{L_MCP}&nbsp;-&nbsp;<!-- ELSEIF S_IN_UCP -->{L_UCP}&nbsp;-&nbsp;<!-- ENDIF -->{SITENAME}</title>

Is that what you want or do you want to show the text somewhere on the page?

[Brf]

If you want:

For posts
posts title - forum name

viewtopic.php has this code:

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// Output the page
page_header($user->lang['VIEW_TOPIC'] . ' - ' . $topic_data['topic_title'], true, $forum_id);

The first thing you would do is remove the "View Topic" text like this:

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// Output the page
page_header($topic_data['topic_title'], true, $forum_id);

Then put the extra dash in your header like this:

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<title>{PAGE_TITLE} &nbsp; . "-" . &nbsp; <!-- IF S_IN_MCP -->{L_MCP}. &nbsp; . "-" . &nbsp; <!-- ELSEIF S_IN_UCP -->{L_UCP}. &nbsp; . "-" . &nbsp; <!-- ENDIF -->{SITENAME}</title>

Just as HGN explained.

[haggisv]

Could you explain with a screenprint what you are trying to achieve.
The code you mention will modify the text shown in the tab of the browsersheet.
Following works for me:

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<title>{PAGE_TITLE}&nbsp;-&nbsp;<!-- IF S_IN_MCP -->{L_MCP}&nbsp;-&nbsp;<!-- ELSEIF S_IN_UCP -->{L_UCP}&nbsp;-&nbsp;<!-- ENDIF -->{SITENAME}</title>

Is that what you want or do you want to show the text somewhere on the page?

Thank you HGN and Brf! That works perfectly for all pages, except that the home page now has a "- " in front of the title, which does not look right.