(e.g. on this site.)
This omission hides the alterations that the site makes automatically and silently upon submission e.g. this one.
- Don't know if it's the same for all browsers but on Firefox 62 it does... in the tab's name. (not optimal, but it's something)Jenayah– Jenayah2018-10-19 18:14:27 +00:00Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 18:14
- Related if not dupe: Please include the title in the question preview although it could use an update, the question is seven years old...Jenayah– Jenayah2018-10-19 18:16:13 +00:00Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 18:16
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Because that would costs space and it's not particularly useful. Contrary to the question body, which can contain markdown and many more kinds of formatting, there's only a very limited amount of formatting that can be applied to the title; AFAIK only MathJax (and some, but not all communities discourage the usage of MathJax in titles). Therefore, you can predict fairly easily how a title will look like and a preview is not necessary.
Note that comments, which support a lot more formatting than titles, don't have a preview either. And if you don't like for whatever reason how a title is rendered, it's fairly easy to change it; it's only a few dozen characters, not the entirety of a post body.
- Absence of formatting doesn't mean you can predict fairly easily how a title will look like. I can't predict what the auto-"correction" will do.ChrisJJ– ChrisJJ2018-10-19 22:26:17 +00:00Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 22:26
- I have posted a separate feature request concerning MathJax: Show a preview of the title when editing/asking - at least on the MathJax sites. (As you point out in your answer, it matters much less on sites where MathJax is not enabled.)Martin– Martin2021-02-21 08:18:54 +00:00Commented Feb 21, 2021 at 8:18