Can you append things to page title?

[shortysbest]

I have notifications that automatically update every so often, and i want it to append the amount of notifications in the page title. I have other information in the title such as site name, and page etc. How could I append the notifications to the title and keep the other information in the title.

[Adam]

Yeah, just modify the document.title property.

[shortysbest]

Yeah. I got it working, however it had some problems. Since the script that updates it runs ever 10 or so seconds, it would append (1) every 10 or so seconds. And if i replace what's in the title it wouldnt show the site name, and the page and all of that. Just everything i tried it wouldn't work right.

[Adam]

I know what you mean. A possible solution would be to store the title within a global var as the page loads. Then whenever you update the page title, set it to the global var + the extra string. Quick example:

 

var g_page_title;

window.onload = function() {
    g_page_title = document.title;
}

function updateTitle(title) {
    document.title = g_page_title + title;
}

[shortysbest]

Yeah i had done that too, had an issue, but I believe i know the fix. Thanks.