Saturday 6 April 2013

SomeNotes Regarding Favicon


How to find favicon for any website?

We can find favicon.ico for any website in any of the following ways:

Method 1:

Finding favicon.ico at the root of the desired domain.

Enter the URL in below format:
www.domain.com/favicon.ico

Example:
www.google.com/favicon.ico

www.twitter.com/favicon.ico

www.facebook.com/favicon.ico





Method 2:

By looking for <link> tag in the head part of the website source

a. search for <link> tag having rel="icon" attribute
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.png" />

b. search for <link> tag having rel="shortcut icon" attribute
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />


The Method 2 will provide the favicon with higher image quality.







How to place favicon for your website?

You can place your own icon as favicon for your website by using following tag in <head> tag

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://yourwebsitepath/favicon.ico" />


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