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Function Reference/the title attribute

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Description

Displays or returns the title of the current post. It somewhat duplicates the functionality of the_title(), but provides a “clean” version of the title for use in HTML attributes by stripping HTML tags with strip_tags() and by converting certain characters (including quotes) to their character entity equivalent with esc_attr(); it also uses query-string style parameters. This tag must be within The Loop.

Usage

 <?php the_title_attribute( $args ); ?> 

Parameters

$before
(string) (optional) Text to place before the title.
Default: None
$after
(string) (optional) Text to place after the title.
Default: None
$echo
(Boolean) (optional) Display the title (TRUE) or return it for use in PHP (FALSE).
Default: TRUE

Example

Inline with array args 

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute( array( 'before' => 'Permalink to: ', 'after' => '' ) ); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

Inline with text args 

<?php
function child_do_post_title() {
?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute( 'before=Permalink to: "&after="' ); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<?php
}
?>

PHP with text args 

printf(	'<a href="%s" title="%s">%s</a>', get_permalink(), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ), get_the_title() );

Notes

Change Log

  • Since: 2.3.0

Source File

the_title_attribute() is located in wp-includes/post-template.php.

Related

body_class(), next_image_link(), next_post_link(), next_posts_link(), post_class(), post_password_required(), posts_nav_link(), previous_image_link(), previous_post_link(), previous_posts_link(), single_post_title, sticky_class(), the_category(), the_category_rss(), the_content(), the_content_rss(), the_excerpt(), the_excerpt_rss(), the_ID(), the_meta(), the_shortlink(), the_tags(), the_title(), the_title_attribute(), the_title_rss(), wp_link_pages()

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