html in node title - is this possible?

It isn't a standard HTML document though, the title field becomes the title of the page. thus html tags would show to bots no ?

if i title a page <i>home</i> what will strip those html tags when goggle spiders the title for inclusion into search results ?

Drupal doesn't allow this as default , and I was wondering if this is the reason. Especially before user changes the behavior in the manner suggested.

In your template.php:

<?php
function  _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars) {
   switch($hook) {
     case 'node' :
     case 'page' :
        // for page and node templates, redefine the title variable
        $vars['title'] = mythemename_custom_title();
        break;
   }
   return $vars;
}

function mythemename_custom_title() {
  // customised version of drupal_get_title() that allows some filtered markup
  // uses check_markup() instead of check_plain()
  $title = drupal_set_title();
  if (!isset($title) && function_exists('menu_get_active_title')) {
    $title = check_markup(menu_get_active_title());
  }
  return $title; 
}

?>

I suspect that will work :)

Note: if your template.php already has a _phptemplate_variables() function, you will need to adapt the above code to it rather than just replacing it.

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Anton
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It also works well on Drupal 5.2. Should work on any PHPtemplate site. I think it's the best option because it doesn't allow HTML directly, but instead uses BBcode.