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								# Set the Document Title
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								Your app should be able to make the browser title bar say whatever you want it to say.
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								This cookbook explains how to do it.
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								See the <live-example name="set-document-title"></live-example>.
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								<div class="l-sub-section">
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								  <img src='generated/images/plunker/plunker-switch-to-editor-button.png'alt="pop out the window" class="right">
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								  <img src='generated/images/plunker/plunker-separate-window-button.png' alt="pop out the window" class="right">
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								  To see the browser title bar change in the live example,
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								  open it again in the Plunker editor by clicking the icon in the upper right,
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								  then pop out the preview window by clicking the blue 'X' button in the upper right corner.
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								## The problem with *<title>*
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								The obvious approach is to bind a property of the component to the HTML `<title>` like this:
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								<code-example format=''>
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								  <title>{{This_Does_Not_Work}}</title>
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								</code-example>
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								Sorry but that won't work.
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								The root component of the application is an element contained within the `<body>` tag.
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								The HTML `<title>` is in the document `<head>`, outside the body, making it inaccessible to Angular data binding.
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								You could grab the browser `document` object and set the title manually.
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								That's dirty and undermines your chances of running the app outside of a browser someday.
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								<div class="l-sub-section">
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								  Running your app outside a browser means that you can take advantage of server-side
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								  pre-rendering for near-instant first app render times and for SEO.  It means you could run from
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								  inside a Web Worker to improve your app's responsiveness by using multiple threads.  And it
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								  means that you could run your app inside Electron.js or Windows Universal to deliver it to the desktop.
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								## Use the `Title` service
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								Fortunately, Angular bridges the gap by providing a `Title` service as part of the *Browser platform*.
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								The [Title](api/platform-browser/Title) service is a simple class that provides an API
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								for getting and setting the current HTML document title:
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								* `getTitle() : string`—Gets the title of the current HTML document.
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								* `setTitle( newTitle : string )`—Sets the title of the current HTML document.
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								You can inject the `Title` service into the root `AppComponent` and expose a bindable `setTitle` method that calls it:
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								<code-example path="set-document-title/src/app/app.component.ts" region="class" title="src/app/app.component.ts (class)" linenums="false"></code-example>
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								Bind that method to three anchor tags and voilà!
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								<figure>
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								  <img src="generated/images/guide/set-document-title/set-title-anim.gif" alt="Set title">
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								Here's the complete solution:
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								<code-tabs>
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								  <code-pane title="src/main.ts" path="set-document-title/src/main.ts"></code-pane>
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								  <code-pane title="src/app/app.module.ts" path="set-document-title/src/app/app.module.ts"></code-pane>
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								  <code-pane title="src/app/app.component.ts" path="set-document-title/src/app/app.component.ts"></code-pane>
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								## Why provide the `Title` service in `bootstrap`
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								Generally you want to provide application-wide services in the root application component, `AppComponent`.
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								This cookbook recommends registering the title service during bootstrapping,
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								a location you reserve for configuring the runtime Angular environment.
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								That's exactly what you're doing.
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								The `Title` service is part of the Angular *browser platform*.
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								If you bootstrap your application into a different platform,
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								you'll have to provide a different `Title` service that understands
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								the concept of a "document title" for that specific platform.
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								Ideally, the application itself neither knows nor cares about the runtime environment.
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								[Back to top](guide/set-document-title#top)
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