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Topic: Problem refreshing Browser bar title

Posted By: trizzi_it
Subject: Problem refreshing Browser bar title
Date Posted: 02 October 2003 at 4:18am

hi,
I have the following problem and i'm not able to solve it.
I have a web server on my machine. If the web server is down and i try to connect to it, with IE, the bar title is "Cannot find the server".
If I enable the web server and i make a page Refresh (also with ie cache disabled) the title remains "Cannot find the server" also if i'm able to view the content of the http server.

I tryed to insert a js on index.html (between the HEAD tag) to refresh the title, but it doesn't work.
example:



<script language="JavaScript">
<!--

// ==========================
// (C) 2000 by CodeLifter.com
//  http://www.codelifter.com - http://www.codelifter.com 
// Free for all users, but leave in this  header

function doTheClock() {
   window.setTimeout( "doTheClock()", 1000 );
   t = new Date();
   if(document.all || document.getElementById){
      document.title = "Hey, you're on my page "+t.toString();
   }else{   
      self.status ="Hey, you're on my page "+ t.toString();
   }
}

doTheClock()

//-->
</script>

Is there a vay to change the title bar in this situation?
TIA

Replies:

Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 02 October 2003 at 7:30am

I believe it's a IE problem and has nothing to do with your code...

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Posted By: trizzi_it
Date Posted: 02 October 2003 at 7:45am

I believe it's a IE problem and has nothing to do with your code...

Sorry for my insistence, but is there nothing to do to avoid this problem?
(Excluding re-launching another IE page, obiusly

)
Thanks

Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 02 October 2003 at 8:22am

i face this thing sometimes too... but i don't think it is a problem...

opening a new browser will come over it.

Posted By: fernan82
Date Posted: 02 October 2003 at 6:19pm

Try adding onLoad="document.title = 'Title Here';" to the <body> tag on your page.

Hope that helps.

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 05 October 2003 at 5:10am

or <title>title here</title> in you <head>!!!

Posted By: trizzi_it
Date Posted: 06 October 2003 at 2:01am

or <title>title here</title> in you <head>!!!

Thanks for your answers, but any solutuion that you proposed me it was just applied. Th eproblem still remains. Unluckly I have to use ie, and I cannot switch to mozilla or other browser.