Sanitizes the current title when retrieving or displaying.

Description

Works like the_title() , except the parameters can be in a string or an array. See the function for what can be override in the $args parameter.

The title before it is displayed will have the tags stripped and esc_attr() before it is passed to the user or displayed. The default as with the_title() , is to display the title.

Parameters

$argsstring|arrayoptional

Title attribute arguments. Optional.

• before string
  Markup to prepend to the title.
• after string
  Markup to append to the title.
• echo bool
  Whether to echo or return the title. Default true for echo.
• post WP_Post
  Current post object to retrieve the title for.

Default:''

Return

Source

function the_title_attribute( $args = '' ) {
	$defaults    = array(
		'before' => '',
		'after'  => '',
		'echo'   => true,
		'post'   => get_post(),
	);
	$parsed_args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );

	$title = get_the_title( $parsed_args['post'] );

	if ( strlen( $title ) === 0 ) {
		return;
	}

	$title = $parsed_args['before'] . $title . $parsed_args['after'];
	$title = esc_attr( strip_tags( $title ) );

	if ( $parsed_args['echo'] ) {
		echo $title;
	} else {
		return $title;
	}
}

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