Hi Taco,

While there is nothing in the HTML spec to limit the length of a title
or description, you should keep this in mind:
"The title should ideally be less than 64 characters in length. That
is, many applications will display document titles in window titles,
menus, etc where there is only limited room. Whilst there is no limit
on the length of a title (as it may be automatically generated from
other data), information providers are warned that it may be truncated
if long."
(http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/TITLE.html)

eg. Titles in Google results are truncated to the first 66 characters,
and Internet Explorer truncates the text shown in the title bar to 96
characters.

I'd recommend allowing for a largish (say 128 characters) title, but
warning the user if it goes above 64.

On 6/20/06, Taco Fleur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,

not sure whether  this it OT or not?
Trying to figure out  the maximum length allowed for the <title> tag and 
description meta  tag.
I've looked at www.w3.org just can't seem to find my way around  it.

--
Lindsay Evans
http://lindsayevans.com/


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