Expose page.content_title property for plugin authors

mkdocs/structure/pages.py

@@ -96,6 +96,19 @@ def __repr__(self):
     meta: MutableMapping[str, Any]
     """A mapping of the metadata included at the top of the markdown page."""
 
+    @property
+    def content_title(self) -> str | None:
+        """
+        The title of the page extracted from the first `<h1>` heading in the page content.
+
+        This is `None` until the page has been rendered. Unlike `title`,
+        this does not fall back to any other source — it reflects exactly
+        the `<h1>` text from the rendered Markdown, with HTML tags stripped
+        and entities unescaped. It is useful for plugins that need the raw
+        heading text as it appears in the page body.
+        """
+        return self._title_from_render
+
     @property
     def url(self) -> str:
         """The URL of the page relative to the MkDocs `site_dir`."""

mkdocs/tests/structure/page_tests.py

@@ -329,6 +329,17 @@ def test_page_title_from_markdown(self):
         self.assertEqual(pg.title, "Welcome to MkDocs")
         pg.render(cfg, Files([fl]))
         self.assertEqual(pg.title, "Welcome to MkDocs")
+        self.assertEqual(pg.content_title, "Welcome to MkDocs")
+
+    def test_content_title_property(self):
+        """content_title is None before rendering, set after."""
+        cfg = load_config()
+        fl = File("testing.md", cfg.docs_dir, cfg.site_dir, cfg.use_directory_urls)
+        pg = Page(None, fl, cfg)
+        pg.read_source(cfg)
+        self.assertIsNone(pg.content_title)
+        pg.render(cfg, Files([fl]))
+        self.assertEqual(pg.content_title, "Welcome to MkDocs")
 
     def _test_extract_title(self, content, expected, extensions={}):
         md = markdown.Markdown(