jquery - Can you manipulate page titles?

Question

I thought I heard somewhere that you couldn't use jquery to manipulate the content... Is that correct? Basically, I have a site that has parameters like p.php?d=keyword+keyword+keyword, and I wanted to be able to set the title according to what's in that d parameter... Is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

$('title').text("some text");

Answer 2

If you really want to do it on the client side with JavaScript/jQuery, try this:

// get query arguments
var $_GET = {},
    args = location.search.substr(1).split(/&/);
for (var i=0; i<args.length; ++i) {
    var tmp = args[i].split(/=/);
    if (tmp[0] != "") {
        $_GET[decodeURI(tmp[0])] = decodeURI(tmp.slice(1).join(""));
    }
}

// change title of document
if (typeof $_GET["d"] == "string") {
    $("title").text($_GET["d"]);
}

Answer 3

You dont need jQuery for this:

document.title = 'Some text';

Answer 4

And, don't forget about security... Because, this script is vulnerable to XSS...