How to get current html page title with javascript

Question

I\'m trying to get the plain html page title with javascript.

I use firefox and with

document.title 

I get extra \"- Mozilla Firef

Answer 1

One option from DOM directly:

$(document).find("title").text();

Tested only on chrome & IE9, but logically should work on all browsers.

Or more generic

var title = document.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].innerHTML;