I stumbled onto an interesting pattern when checking out the Mellow Mushroom web page. It didn't hit me right away ... I left the page and had to come back and see if I really had observed the page title change when I switched tabs! Then, I had to figure out how it was done.

A quick search came up with the following question on Stack Overflow ... PERFECT!

How to change tab name in browser when user goes off from my site

Feb 16 '14 Comments: 1 Answers: 4

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So I am making a website and everything is nicely done but I don't know that many things with javascript.

I was searching for something that will help me with this and found some similar things but it doesn't work in my case.

This is the problem/idea:

• User is on…

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In the answers ...

window.onblur = function () {
  document.title = 'you left?';
}
window.onfocus = function () {
  document.title = 'WELCOME';
}

Here's a working copy of the code above ...