YAML property to ignore HTML in website title?

[MayaGans]

Hi! I want to set my website title to

title: maya<br>gans

but I want it it to show up in the title element as maya gans. I was wondering if there's like an html in title property that will treat the title as html and not a string? Is that possible?

[mcanouil]

You have to use pagetitle to change the title of the page in browser.
pagetitle is set to title by default.

[MayaGans]

Hi! Thanks for your response @mcanouil - I couldn't find the pagetitle in the docs but tried using this in my quarto website

website:
  title: "maya<br>gans"
  pagetitle: "Maya Gans"

but it looks like only the title attribute is respected? Thanks for your help!

[MayaGans]

Ooh found it here: https://quarto.org/docs/reference/formats/html.html and tried this because it's under metadata but I guess I'm still messing this up...

website:
  title: "maya<br>gans"
  metadata:
    pagetitle: "Maya Gans"

[MayaGans]

Oh I got it!!!

project:
  type: website

website:
  title: "maya<br>gans"

.....
        
format:
  html:
    metadata:
      pagetitle: "Maya Gans"

[EllaKaye]

Hey @MayaGans, there's a better solution for our use case - just set the navbar title:

website:
  title: "maya gans"
  navbar:
    title: "maya<br>gans"

That way, you can do styling on how the title appears in the navbar, but the website title, as it appears in browser tabs, doesn't have any HTML and therefore we don't need pagetitle. Also, it solves the problem we had when using pagetitle of the tab titles not updating as we navigate around the site.