Hiya, I've just bought a domain name from Easily.co.uk and am using framed forwarding (cloaking) to point that domain to some free Web space that I get with my Blueyonder broadband.

The problem is that the browser title contains the basic domain name, because that's what Easily's forwarding page contains. They won't let me change the contents of that forwarding page without buying hosting from them.

So how can I change the browser title?

Obviously, the <TITLE> tags in my site are ignored as my site's pages are contained within Easily's frame. So I thought JavaScript might help. I tried putting this in the head of my HTML page:

<script>
<!--
top.document.title='Welcome to my Web site';
//-->
</script>

Unfortunately, this doesn't change the browser's title text.

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

Thanks,
May

Try this instead:

<script>
<!--
parent.document.title='Welcome to my Web site';
//-->
</script>

I think that should work.

Thanks for your suggestion David, but unfortunately it doesn't work.

Strange thing is that I put the following code into the head of my main 'index.html' page and it doesn't work when you view the site using the purchased domain name, but it does work when I type in the long URL for my Blueyonder Web space:

<script>
<!--
if (opener) {
alert('there is an opener');
}
else
{
alert('the title is: ' + top.document.title);
}
parent.document.title='Welcome to my Web site';
//-->
</script>

I.e. I don't get an alert at all when I type the purchased domain name into a browser, but I do get an alert when I type in the free Web space URL directly.

This is strange as all that Easily have in their forwarding Web page is a FRAME tag pointing to the free Web space URL.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thx,
May

Have you tried changing it into a function, then calling the function in the BODY tag on load? Just a quickie thought...

Originally posted by prissed
Have you tried changing it into a function, then calling the function in the BODY tag on load? Just a quickie thought...

Thx for the suggestion. Again, this only works when I go directly to the free Web space, but not when I go to the purchased domain.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
May