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Setting Page Titles Natively With The Angular Router 🔥

Brandon Roberts on February 01, 2022

When building applications with Angular, one common thing you should do is have the page title update after each successful navigation. This helps ...

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Alain D'Ettorre • Feb 2 '22

Didn't know about the new Title Strategy, thank you!

Rodrigo Kamada • Feb 1 '22

Great article! 👏

Jesse de Bruijne • Feb 10 '22

Great stuff! Now to convince my company to drop IE11 support so we can update :D

Azhe Kun • Feb 2 '22

Thank you for the great article! 🧡🧡

Ronaldo Hoch • Feb 1 '22

Awesome ❤️_❤️

faradoxuzb • Feb 10 '22

What about dynamic page title?

Brandon Roberts • Feb 17 '22

You can still do dynamic page titles

Martin Pultz • Jul 1 '22 • Edited

Is it possible to read the title out of the route config in a component? Want to use the TitleStrategy to append ${title} | ${companyName}, but want to get the title in the component as well. I can see it in the snapshot data, but can't seem to access it:

this.route.snapshot.data[Symbol('RouteTitle')])

Flávio Banyai • Jul 15 '22

Hey Martin,

I was also trying to figure how to do it... It happens to be easier than I thought! :)

this.route.routeConfig.title

Mark Lagendijk • Jul 27 '22 • Edited

If you want to read this in a higher level component this is a bit tricky.
I came up with the following solution that combines router events with the Title service to create an observable:

export class MyComponent{
  title$: Observable<string>;

  constructor(
    titleService: Title,
    router: Router
  ) {
    this.title$ = router.events.pipe(
      // Use startWith to get the initial title
      startWith(titleService.getTitle()),
      // The title is set after the last router event, so we need to wait until the next application cycle
      delay(0),
      map(() => titleService.getTitle())
    );
  }
}

You could also call the Title service directly from your template. However, this is normally bad practice, because it would be called quite often.

export class MyComponent{
  constructor(
    public titleService: Title,
  ) {
  }
}

<h2>{{ titleService.getTitle()</h2>

Sandeep K Nair • Feb 2 '22

Great article. I had a question though. Will the 'setTitle' from the platform-browser package work for the same case if we set it the component level?

angular.io/api/platform-browser/Title

Brandon Roberts • Feb 2 '22

Thanks! Good question. My thought is that this would overwrite your title set at the component level because the components are activated before the navigation cycle is complete.

If you wanted to opt-out of this, you could probably set an empty title route property so it doesn't update the title.