How to "Grab" or Highlight Safari Window Titles?

Hello Folks,
i was wondering if someone can answer a question for me about the titles that appear at the top of my Safari windows. (i'm using Safari 3.2.) When i display a webpage in a particular Safari window or tab within a window, there is a title for that page that appears at the very top of the window right above the URL address bar. i would like to be able to "grab" that title (i.e., highlight the text in that title & copy/paste it to a document), but i'm not able to do that by trying to select & highlight that title using conventional highlighting methods.
i notice that for websites which i have bookmarked, the corresponding titles for those sites/pages are somehow obtained by the Bookmarks manager & are accessible when i am updating my Safari bookmarks. This leads me to conclude that these titles are located somewhere in a form that the Bookmarks manager is able to access & "grab", & i'd like to find out where that is. Could they be in some sort of temporary file somewhere? If someone could tell me where these titles reside & how i can access them for the purposes of copying & pasting, i would really appreciate it. Thanx in advance.

As Mulder says, the title is in the <title> tag in the HTML.
One way you could quickly copy it is by beginning to bookmark it: Command-D (aka Apple-D) on your keyboard. The bookmark dialog that drops down has the title highlighted. Just copy that and cancel the bookmark. The page's title will still be on your clipboard and can be pasted into another application.

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