The effect of having CR LF HT commands in a <title>tag</title>
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Hello.
I am looking at a customer site with a CMS system that is controlling the population of the meta TITLE
Currently it has the TITLE set as this
<title>(CR)(LF)<br />(HT)Site Details REMOVED - Customer name REMOVED(CR)(LF)<br /></title>
Naturally, we would prefer it to be
<title>Site Details REMOVED - Customer name REMOVED</title>
What affect would these commands have in the title! Google shows their title when you Google the company website... so I guess it can see it .... but GA "Top Site Content" widget shows it as blank ?
Any ideas?
Cheers
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Thanks Marcus. I agree, might as well fix it, it's not a big job
Tris
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Hey
I really would not sweat this one. The Title can have page breaks and whilst it would be nicer from a code formatting perspective if it did not it really should not hurt. If it is tripping up the Google Analytics Top Content report though then that in itself is a good argument to make what is the simplest of simple fixes to the back end of the CMS>
Hope this helps!
Marcus
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