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[css-env] getting access to the document title

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Description

It can be useful to reuse the title of the document (the string found in the <title> element of an HTML document) in ::before or ::after. An easily recognizable example is running headers and footers, but that's limited to actually paged media, and it would be nice to achieve a similar effect in general.

A possible solution for this would be exposing it via env(doc-title).

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the proposed env(doc-title) value and how document titles could be exposed to ::before and ::after content, including the HTML <title> element. Done would require a resolved CSS Working Group design for accessing the title, with the behavior defined for relevant media and content-generation cases.

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Assessment

Tech stack
css
Domain
frontend, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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