Print post title with markup

Question

I have a piece of code that outputs my post title but how can I output it as an H4?

Here is the code I have: <?php echo get_the_title( $post_id ); ?> Thanks

Answer 1

Using your example, you could...

<h4><?php echo get_the_title( $post_id ); ?></h4>

Or

$h4 = get_the_title();
echo '<h4>' . $h4 . '</h4>';

More on get_the_title().

Or you could use the_title().

the_title( '<h4>', '</h4>' );

Answer 2

The most simple way is:

<h4><?php echo get_the_title( $post_id ); ?></h4>

However, if you want check first if that post has a title and avoid an empty <h4> if it doesn't, you write:

$title = get_the_title( $post_id );

if ( $title )
    echo "<h4>$title</h4>";