diff --git a/lisp/org-html.el b/lisp/org-html.el
index 9135c73..016a181 100644
--- a/lisp/org-html.el
+++ b/lisp/org-html.el
@@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ lang=\"%s\" xml:lang=\"%s\">
 		      "")
 		  (or charset "iso-8859-1"))
 		 language language
-		 title
+		 (org-html-expand title)
 		 (or charset "iso-8859-1")
 		 date author description keywords
 		 style