Question

We have a title

<title>Text &#8211; text</title>

I want to change it with jquery

$('title').html($('title').html().replace('Text-text', ''));

But it doesn’t work…

Answer 1

Use .text() to replace the contents:

$('title').text('Text-text');

.html() is overkill if there’s no actual HTML inside there.

To only replace certain characters in the title, use a callback function:

$('title').text(function(i,str) {
    return str.replace('replace this','with this');
});

To replace special characters, you’ll need to use their Unicode encoding, which I found here by googling “unicode 8211”:

$('title').text(function(i,str) {
    return str.replace('\u2013','-');
});