Stephen Brown on Tue, 30 Jul 2002 14:58:07 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] HTML question

Arthur S. Alexion wrote: 
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 12:45 pm, Nick Uniatowski wrote:

In the html document's <HEAD> tag:

<link REL="shortcut icon" HREF="favicon.ico" TYPE="image/x-icon">

I believe the icon size is 16x16.

Also, here's a little how-to from msdn:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/Author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.as
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From what Stephen Brown said, I assume the <link> tag is optional, as long as its in the site's root directory. I assume he's right, because I've been trying to figure out how to do this from View Source and haven't spotted the <link> reference. Is it optional or browser dependent?

I am guessing that you should put the link tag in, but at least some of the browsers must look for it anyway, since I have thousands of 404 errors for favicon.ico in error logs on my client's websites, when they don't have any <link> tags in any of their pages.

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