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Set custom browser-tab titles for your apps

2-min readPublished Jun 17, 2026

Users often keep several tabs of the same app open: different filters, different entities, etc. Until now every tab showed the same title, but now apps can set a descriptive browser-tab title so each tab describes what it actually shows.

You add a small usePageTitle hook to your project and call it from each routed page. The app shell composes the rest of the tab title (app name, tenant, "Dynatrace") around the part you set. One thing to watch: only set a title for views with a persistent URL — updating it for transient overlays or modals confuses the browser's back/forward history.

The Page titles guide has the full walkthrough, including the hook itself and how to set titles for widgets.

This one closed a loop with the community — it started as a question on the Developer Q&A forum. If there's something you're missing, that's a good place to ask.