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Asked: 2026-06-04T03:27:52+00:00

This problem is not critical… but would be helpful for me to know the

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This problem is not critical… but would be helpful for me to know the answer. I’ve been using Ryan Bates’ method of putting titles on pages. BTW, he’s a great innovator and contributor to the rails community, isn’t he?

application_helper file:

  def title(page_title)
    content_for(:title) { page_title }
  end

layout file:

<head>
   <title>foo.com - <%= yield(:title) %></title>
   ...
</head>
<body>
   ...
   <h1 class="heading"><%= yield(:title) %></h1>

I am trying to manipulate the title to insert more spaces and make one of the words italicized. I thought that if i put the title together as a variable I might be able to do it. I tried inserting &nbsp; and that doesn’t work. I tried inserting html <i></i> and that doesn’t work. I would like to get it to look like this:

First    Second    Third

How do I change the code below to make the title look like that?

<% ttl = "First Second Third" %>
<% title ttl %>

Thanks for your help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    By HTML syntax, the title element content must be plain text, and browsers actually enforce this: the content is rendered as-is, without interpreting anything as HTML tags.

    You can have no-break spaces there, but you may need to enter them directly as characters (U+00A0).

    You cannot have <i> tags there, no matter what technique you use to generate the title element.

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