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title: "Section title"
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description: "Section titles are fixed labels in PSML documents that appear within sections but cannot be edited through standard interfaces, helping structure documents and reduce user training by defining ordered sections in document templates."
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# Section title

A section title is stored outside the editable area of a [section](/reference/glossary/section.md). It is displayed but cannot be removed or altered using the standard editing interface. This can be a useful way of building [documents](/reference/glossary/document.md) that are composed of specifically defined, or ordered, sections.

Properly used, section titles can also reduce the amount of training required by end-users. Sections are configured in the [PSML document template](/guide/configuration/psml/psml_document_template.md).

Following is an example of a section title before and after the section has been edited.

## PSML

The markup for a section title uses the `<title>` element and is as follows:

```xml
<section id="description">
  <title>Description</title>
  <fragment id="1">
    <para/>
  </fragment>
</section>
```

If it is meant to be displayed to end-users, but shouldn’t be printable or considered part of the table of content, the appropriate mark up is the `@title` attribute on the `<section>` element as follows:

```xml
<section id="description" title="Description">
  <fragment id="1">
    <para/>
  </fragment>
</section>
```

![Document – Section title](/content/images/glossary/section_title_v60000.webp)