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Bug 29750 - Get Title behaviour for pages without a title
Summary: Get Title behaviour for pages without a title
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Browser Test/Tools WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebDriver (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Browser Testing and Tools WG
QA Contact: Browser Testing and Tools WG
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Blocks: 20860
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Reported: 2016-07-22 09:12 UTC by Harry King
Modified: 2016-08-10 10:21 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Harry King 2016-07-22 09:12:12 UTC 
It would be good to document quirks like returning an empty string for pages without a title.
Comment 1 Harry King 2016-07-22 09:13:59 UTC 
This is related to a specific change made in ChromeDriver 2.21 to make their driver more consistent.

http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.22/notes.txt
Comment 2 James Graham 2016-07-22 10:59:46 UTC 
Bah, so apparently the spec just said the wrong thing here. https://github.com/w3c/webdriver/pull/319 to fix it.
Comment 3 David Burns :automatedtester 2016-08-09 22:01:03 UTC 
landed in cefc45f
Comment 4 Harry King 2016-08-10 10:21:19 UTC 
Cheers chaps!