Putting an icon in the favorites menu

[guy1407]

Hi All

How do I put an icon near my link when the user adds the page to his/her
favorites list (like www.msn.com do)

TIA
Guy

[Stefan]

Place this in your webpage head section


<link rel="shortcut icon" href="youricon.ico">

[guy1407]

First thank you!

I used "redside" style-sheet (visual interdev 6)
Where should I put the line+what should I do:
<link rel="shortcut icon" HREF="images/icon.ico">
If I want all my current pages to get the setting

TIA
Guy

[Stefan]

No, you cannot put HTML markup inside your CSS file. It must go in the HTML file.

[guy1407]

Hi again,
You are wrong...
Go to:
http://forums.webdeveloper.com/
or
http://www.msn.com

show me where is their "icon line"...

TIA
Guy

[Robert Wellock]

As Stefan stated; you cannot place HTML markup within a CSS file, a far better task would have been to look where Micro$oft have placed their DTD reference on their main page, whoops they seem to have forgot that minor detail.

If you want to see where I have placed my address bar icon on my beta site: http://www.xhtmlcoder.com/worthvalley/ then you are welcome, but remember Micro$oft IE probably won't display the file you'd have to use a more "web standards" compliant browser like Mozilla or Opera 7.0.

I also forgot to mention you could use the server to push the icon rather than define it within the HTML.

[Stefan]

Originally posted by guy1407
show me where is their "icon line"...


Excuse me providing the solution that will work in all favicon capable browsers, not just MS IE (which automatically spams requests to every server it visits about a favicon, even if noone exsists). :rolleyes:

You are wrong...

Perhaps you should bother to at least TRY THE CODE, before you state I'm wrong? :D

[guy1407]

When I said you are wrong - I was talking about this line:

"It must go in the HTML file."

Right click www.msn.com and select view source - you wont find it there...

Cheers
Guy

[Stefan]

Originally posted by guy1407
When I said you are wrong - I was talking about this line:

"It must go in the HTML file."


That was in reply to your "can I place it in the CSS file".

Never the less I am still right, it MUST go into the HTML file. The way you get the favicon in some browsers anyway (even if it's not in the HTML) is as I have already stated, they randomly spam the visted webserver for an iconfile, even if one is not specified ANYWHERE in the webpage files.

[Robert Wellock]

Theoretically if you place a file expressively called: "favicon.ico" of the type "image/x-icon" within your root directory of your site Micro$oft IE 6.0 will use that if you don't use the (X)HTML link method. It's just one of the many design faults of Micro$oft IE.

[guy1407]

Many thanks mates
All methods are working fine!
Guy