Line breaks in site name but not in title tag

Question

For design purposes I need line breaks in a multilingual site name. I have managed to do so by adding <br /> tags in the site name variable. But they show in the title within the html head tag and I don't know how to get rid of them.

I am using a custom Zen subtheme to which I have added the html.tpl.php file. In that I have tried the following approaches to no avail:

<title><?php print preg_replace('/<br \/>/iU', '', $head_title); ?></title>

<title><?php print strip_tags($head_title); ?></title>

<title><?php $head_title = str_replace('<br />', '', $head_title);
  print $head_title; ?></title>

Please excuse any profanities I may have committed in the use of php, I am no coder. Any ideas are most welcome.

Answer 1

Here is what I just found: There is no tags in the title, it's just a string. So the fix is quite simple.

in the html.tpl.php replace:

<title><?php print $head_title ?></title>

With this:

<title><?php 
$break_tag = array("&lt;br /&gt;");
$simple_space = array(" ");
$new_head_title = str_replace($break_tag, $simple_space, $head_title);
print $new_head_title;
?></title>

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

I think I have found a way, albeit it might not be a very orthodox one, but just in case anybody else is facing a similar situation, here it is:

In your theme's html.tpl.ph, edit the title tag into something like this:

<title><?php print strip_tags($head_title); ?></title>

Then, in your theme's template.php, add this:

function YOUR-THEME-NAME_preprocess_html(&$vars) {
      global $theme_path;
      // Add conditional CSS for IE7 and below.
      drupal_add_css($theme_path . '/css/ie.css', array('group' => CSS_THEME, 'browsers' => array('IE' => 'lte IE 7', '!IE' => FALSE), 'preprocess' => FALSE));
      $vars['head_title'] = implode(' | ', array(drupal_get_title(), variable_get('site_name') . ' ' . variable_get('site_slogan')));  
    }

In my case I ended up removing the <br /> tags from the site name since they were showing all over, not just on the page title but also on emails, reports, etc. What I did instead was leave the first line as the site name and put the two following in the site slogan, with a <br /> line break. Then I used some css and the previous theme function so that everything looks as it should.