Change Icon in Link Bar

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Change Icon in Link Bar

Post by farnush »

I would like to change the icon like IE ,,,,, .... this phoenix is an awesome browser
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farnush wrote:I would like to change the icon like IE ,,,,, .... this phoenix is an awesome browser


And what do you mean with Link Bar?
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Post by cdn »

perhaps the "Quick Launch" toolbar on the start bar in Win98, Win me etc ?
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Post by flii »

maybe he's asking how to setup his webpage with a favicon?
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Post by farnush »

yeas thats what i meant ... i want to change my fav icon
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Post by flii »

put this in the head of your html files:
<link rel="shortcut icon" HREF="favicon.ico">

and then make sure you put the file named exactly favicon.ico into your main web directory. if you don't own your own domain, sometimes you can still have the favicon by using "/yoursubname/favicon.ico". does that help any?
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Post by priior »

ive also noticed phoenix/mozilla use a jpg and resizing it to the proper size... so

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="wherever/whatever/nameyouwant.jpg" />

work also.. tho im not sure what the exact standard (if any) is on this issue.
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Post by seb »

Try not to forget to add the content type.
For example:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="blah.jpg" type="image/jpg" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="blah.ico" type="image/x-ico" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="blah.png" type="image/png" />
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Post by Stefan »

priior wrote:tho im not sure what the exact standard (if any) is on this issue.


It's originally proprietary MS code that has been picked up by other browsers as well.
Originally you can only use 16x16px .ico files, but eg Mozilla can do much more. IE can't however so sticking to .ico is probably a good idea in most cases.
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