Agree, just tested with Cassiopeia and same issue.

Browser page title from the article is only used when there is NO single menu item for the article eg when the article is in a blog category or featured view

@brianteeman what was the aim of this fix then: #39249 ?

dont really know but it is inside a code block that says
// If the menu item is not linked to this article

Yes, but it was fixed later with #39249, and the fix does not seem to work anymore...

no. the code you are referring to will only be used If the menu item is not linked to this article

It says: Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

Joomla use Browser Page Title setup in the article for Browser Page Title.

hm. It is not logical.

It is okay that the menu-item-title is overwriting the article-item-title.

But it is not logical when the PAGE title is being displayed instead of the browser title (which was specially inserted).

It really seems to be a bug. The fact that the error has already been fixed in the past confirms that. Maybe the fix was lost by accident during an update. It would be great if this could be corrected again.

Many thanks

P.S. stop. I've made a mistake in my description. Not the PAGE title is displayed - but the MENUE title (the link text which is visible in the menue). But nethertheless - it is not logical and it does not change the problem itself.

@wegwei can you please give a full description of exactly what you are doing and what is displayed and what you expect to be displayed.

no problem.
-> I have updated the first post "Steps to reproduce the issue..." with the correct wording and with more details.

If necessary I could send some screenshots?

This is the current situation as far as I can tell from testing and as far as I can tell from reading the code is the intended behaviour

Create article(A) with a browser page title(B)

Scenario 1

Display that article(A) from a category blog etc ie not a direct menu
Browser displays (B) in the title

Scenario 2

Display the article(A) directly from a menu item (C)
Browser displays C in the title

Scenario 3

Display the article(A) directly from a menu item(C) with a browser page title (D)
Browser displays D in the title

hi brian, yes, your scenario describes the actual result.

but this is not logical: If this was the planned scenario, so it would be necessary very often to add the title twice: in the article for showing it by listing in category blogs and also in the menu item for showing through direct links.

in practical use it is very often needed to list articles through category blog AND to set a link to some of the content pages. so it would be necessary to add the title tag *** twice. by doing seo optimizations it is also necessary to update both... I can't imagine that this is the conceptual planning.

*** and the handling of the meta tag "description" is similar. but this issue is in another way unlogical:
by changing the meta description in the menu item it is NOT displayed and it shows still the meta description out of the article item.

please find both scenario in the screenshot:

in practical use it is very often needed to list articles through category blog AND to set a link to some of the content pages.

Never had a need for that myself but I just checked and if you do that then both articles will of course use the settings for the inidividual menu item

I will step back from this now. For me it is working as intended but perhaps others have a different view

thanks brian for your comments.

yes, we are using the described scenario very often and for us it would be important to solve the issue.

I would be happy if the developers would take up this issue.

PR #41452 should solve this issue. Please help testing, thanks !