diff --git a/src/html/elements/title.zig b/src/html/elements/title.zig
index d4b9354..0f56204 100644
--- a/src/html/elements/title.zig
+++ b/src/html/elements/title.zig
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 const std = @import("std");
+const Allocator = std.mem.Allocator;
+const root = @import("../../root.zig");
+const Span = root.Span;
+const Ast = @import("../Ast.zig");
 const Element = @import("../Element.zig");
 
 pub const title: Element = .{
@@ -9,7 +13,12 @@ pub const title: Element = .{
     },
     .meta = .{ .categories_superset = .{ .metadata = true } },
     .attributes = .static,
-    .content = .model,
+    .content = .{
+        .custom = .{
+            .validate = validateContent,
+            .completions = completionsContent,
+        },
+    },
     .desc =
     \\The `<title>` HTML element defines the document's title that is
     \\shown in a browser's title bar or a page's tab. It only contains
@@ -17,6 +26,172 @@ pub const title: Element = .{
     \\plain text.
     \\
     \\ - [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/title)
-    \\ - [HTML Spec](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-title-element)
+    \\ - [HTML Spec](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#the-title-element)
     ,
 };
+
+/// Validates the content model for `<title>`.
+/// Per WHATWG spec § 4.2.2: Content model is "Text that is not inter-element whitespace."
+/// This means:
+/// - No element children allowed (already handled by `.content = .{ .text = true }`)
+/// - No comments allowed
+/// - Text content must not be only whitespace
+fn validateContent(
+    gpa: Allocator,
+    nodes: []const Ast.Node,
+    seen_attrs: *std.StringHashMapUnmanaged(Span),
+    seen_ids: *std.StringHashMapUnmanaged(Span),
+    errors: *std.ArrayListUnmanaged(Ast.Error),
+    src: []const u8,
+    parent_idx: u32,
+) error{OutOfMemory}!void {
+    _ = seen_attrs;
+    _ = seen_ids;
+
+    const parent = nodes[parent_idx];
+    const parent_span = parent.span(src);
+
+    var has_non_whitespace_text = false;
+    var child_idx = parent.first_child_idx;
+    while (child_idx != 0) {
+        const child = nodes[child_idx];
+        defer child_idx = child.next_idx;
+
+        switch (child.kind) {
+            .comment => {
+                // Comments are not allowed inside <title>
+                try errors.append(gpa, .{
+                    .tag = .{
+                        .invalid_nesting = .{
+                            .span = parent_span,
+                            .reason = "comments are not allowed inside <title>",
+                        },
+                    },
+                    .main_location = child.span(src),
+                    .node_idx = child_idx,
+                });
+            },
+            .text => {
+                // Check if text contains non-whitespace characters
+                const text = child.span(src).slice(src);
+                for (text) |c| {
+                    if (c != ' ' and c != '\t' and c != '\n' and c != '\r') {
+                        has_non_whitespace_text = true;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            },
+            else => {
+                // Element children are rejected by the content model (.text = true)
+                // but we still need to validate them through modelRejects
+                if (!title.model.content.overlaps(child.model.categories)) {
+                    try errors.append(gpa, .{
+                        .tag = .{
+                            .invalid_nesting = .{
+                                .span = parent_span,
+                            },
+                        },
+                        .main_location = child.span(src),
+                        .node_idx = child_idx,
+                    });
+                }
+            },
+        }
+    }
+
+    // <title> must contain text that is not inter-element whitespace
+    if (!has_non_whitespace_text) {
+        try errors.append(gpa, .{
+            .tag = .{
+                .invalid_nesting = .{
+                    .span = parent_span,
+                    .reason = "<title> must contain non-whitespace text",
+                },
+            },
+            .main_location = parent_span,
+            .node_idx = parent_idx,
+        });
+    }
+}
+
+fn completionsContent(
+    arena: Allocator,
+    ast: Ast,
+    src: []const u8,
+    parent_idx: u32,
+    offset: u32,
+) error{OutOfMemory}![]const Ast.Completion {
+    // <title> only accepts text content, no element completions
+    _ = arena;
+    _ = ast;
+    _ = src;
+    _ = parent_idx;
+    _ = offset;
+    return &.{};
+}
+
+test "title element rejects comments" {
+    const case =
+        \\<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title><!-- comment --></title></head><body></body></html>
+    ;
+
+    const ast = try Ast.init(std.testing.allocator, case, .html, false);
+    defer ast.deinit(std.testing.allocator);
+
+    // Should have an error for the comment inside <title>
+    try std.testing.expect(ast.errors.len > 0);
+
+    // Check that one of the errors is about invalid nesting in <title>
+    var found_title_error = false;
+    for (ast.errors) |err| {
+        switch (err.tag) {
+            .invalid_nesting => |nesting| {
+                if (std.mem.indexOf(u8, nesting.reason, "comment") != null) {
+                    found_title_error = true;
+                    break;
+                }
+            },
+            else => {},
+        }
+    }
+    try std.testing.expect(found_title_error);
+}
+
+test "title element rejects whitespace-only content" {
+    const case =
+        \\<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>   </title></head><body></body></html>
+    ;
+
+    const ast = try Ast.init(std.testing.allocator, case, .html, false);
+    defer ast.deinit(std.testing.allocator);
+
+    // Should have an error for whitespace-only content
+    try std.testing.expect(ast.errors.len > 0);
+
+    // Check that one of the errors is about non-whitespace text requirement
+    var found_whitespace_error = false;
+    for (ast.errors) |err| {
+        switch (err.tag) {
+            .invalid_nesting => |nesting| {
+                if (std.mem.indexOf(u8, nesting.reason, "whitespace") != null) {
+                    found_whitespace_error = true;
+                    break;
+                }
+            },
+            else => {},
+        }
+    }
+    try std.testing.expect(found_whitespace_error);
+}
+
+test "title element accepts valid text content" {
+    const case =
+        \\<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>My Page Title</title></head><body></body></html>
+    ;
+
+    const ast = try Ast.init(std.testing.allocator, case, .html, false);
+    defer ast.deinit(std.testing.allocator);
+
+    // Should have no errors
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 0), ast.errors.len);
+}