$this->set('title', 'Title Name'); not working in CakePHP 3.x

Question

Basically in default.ctp I have this for my title:

And inside of the

Answer 1

Just for completion, I came across a situation where a malformed .js script with undefined variables referenced between resulted in the tags being posted to DOM (showed in page source) but Chrome, Firefox and (from memory) MSIE all failed to deliver the content of the title to the APP UI, again from memory - iOS mobile was unaffected.