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Can someone please tell me how to make icons appear on browser tabs in PHP?
I want my icon to appear on the tabs when my site is being accessed.
This is not done in PHP. It's part of the <head> tags in a HTML page.
That icon is called a favicon. According to Wikipedia:
A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a shortcut icon, website icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon is a 16×16 or 32×32 pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage.
Adding it is easy. Just add an .ico image file that is either 16x16 pixels or 32x32 pixels. Then, in the web pages, add <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> to the <head> element.
You can easily generate favicons here.
Simply put a file named favicon.ico in the webroot.
If you want to know more, please start reading:
Favicon on Wikipedia
Favicon Generator
How to add a Favicon by W3C (from 2005 though)
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can someone please advise how best to change whatever that symbol is on websites I create?
google chrome tabs, left side
This is called a favicon !
You can just use this in your page's <head> :
<link rel="icon"
type="image/png"
href="http://example.com/myicon.png" />
(You just have to replace the url and image/png by image/jpg if necessary)
What you are looking for is called "Favicon"
A favicon (favorite icon) is a tiny icon included along with a
website, which is displayed in places like the browser's address bar,
page tabs and bookmarks menu.
Read more about it here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Favicon
You will have to create different icons in different sizes for multiple devices. See this page for generating icons https://favicon.io/ and the HTML you will need
Can I customizie bookmark icon in my browser ? I can rename my bookmark item in bookmark toolbar of my browsers . But I have no idea which way I can modify it's icon image ( may be favicon of it's site ).
Please check below image..
It is an example as I really want to do (may be another icons and it is create by renaming) .
I would like to insert my customize image icon. Can it be possible ? Any suggestions ?
Thanks.
The bookmark icon is the favicon of your site. To add a custom favicon to your site, follow the instructions here: Adding a favicon to a static HTML page
Basically, create a 16x16 pixel image, save it as a PNG called favicon.png. Put that file in the root of your web site and then add the following to the <head> section of your website:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.png" type="image/png">
Be sure to add that code to every page.
Also note that it can take a little bit for the icon to update in your browser. Clearing your browser's cache, and sometimes manually trying to load the favicon.png file by going to that file in your browser, then refreshing a few times, can force the update.
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Image icon beside the site URL
What is currently the best way to get a favicon to display in all browsers that support Favicons?
Preferred way to use favicons?
I want to add my logo in the address bar of the browser, whenever it is browsed.
How do I make a favicon?
You need a favicon - this is a 16x16 image in .ico format stored as favicon.ico in the root directory your site. Some browsers do support other formats too.
A newer, more standards based approach is to include something like this in your html head:
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/path/image.png"/>
See also this document from W3C: How to Add a Favicon to your Site
You might also want to refer to these other answers to the question:
Image icon beside the site URL
What is currently the best way to get a favicon to display in all browsers that support Favicons?
Preferred way to use favicons?
That image is called a favicon and here are some links on how to add one or you can just google "how to add a favicon" for more information.
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon
http://www.clickfire.com/favicon-tutorial
http://essentialkeystrokes.com/tutorial-how-to-create-your-own-favicon
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
Are you talking about creating a Favicon?
If so, here's a site which will help you make one.
Just use this.
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/path/image.png"/>
I hope it works for you.
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What is currently the best way to get a favicon to display in all browsers that currently support it?
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Which image formats are supported by which browsers.
Which lines are needed in what places for the various browsers.
I go for a belt and braces approach here.
I create a 32x32 icon in both the .ico and .png formats called favicon.ico and favicon.png. The icon name doesn't really matter unless you are dealing with older browsers.
Place favicon.ico at your site root to support the older browsers (optional and only relevant for older browsers.
Place favicon.png in my images sub-directory (just to keep things tidy).
Add the following HTML inside the <head> element.
<link rel="icon" href="/images/favicon.png" type="image/png" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
Please note that:
The MIME type for .ico files was registered as image/vnd.microsoft.icon by the IANA.
Internet Explorer will ignore the type attribute for the shortcut icon relationship and this is the only browser to support this relationship, it doesn't need to be supplied.
Reference
I use .ico format and put the following two lines within the <head> element:
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
To also support touch icons for tablets and smartphones I prefer the approach of HTML5Boilerplate
More information on touch icons can be found in this article.
With the current status of browser-support you don't even have to add the HTML tag for the favicon in your document. The browsers will search automaticly a list of files, see this example for iOS:
If no icons are specified in the HTML, iOS Safari will search the
website’s root directory for icons with the apple-touch-icon or
apple-touch-icon-precomposed prefix. For example, if the appropriate
icon size for the device is 57 × 57 pixels, iOS searches for filenames
in the following order:
apple-touch-icon-57x57-precomposed.png
apple-touch-icon-57x57.png
apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
apple-touch-icon.png
My advise is to not include a favicon in your document, but have a list of files ready in the root website:
apple-touch-icon-114x114-precomposed.png
apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png
apple-touch-icon-57x57-precomposed.png
apple-touch-icon-72x72-precomposed.png
apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
apple-touch-icon.png (57px*57px)
favicon.ico HiDPI (32x32px)
When you download a template from html5boilerplate.com these are all included, you just have to replace them with your own icons.
Wikipedia to the rescue
IE6 cannot handle PNGs correctly, be warned.
Favicon must be an .ico file to work properly on all browsers.
Modern browsers also support PNG and GIF images.
I've found that in general the easiest way to create one is to use a freely available web service such as favicon.cc.
There is also a site where you can check how the favicon of any page is made
getfavicon.org
There you can see a tutorial about making favicons, image types and resolutions, it's nice!
Having a favicon.* in your root directory is automatically detected by most browsers. You can ensure it's detected by using:
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/path/image.png" />
Personally I use .png images but most formats should work.
The answer to this question has become complicated enough that the best way is to just use a tool like RealFaviconGenerator, which lets you upload a png/jpg and then generates favicons and code to cover all the platforms for you: https://realfavicongenerator.net/
How do I write code where a company icon appears on the left side next to the URL address in the browser's address bar?
You are looking for a Favicon.
it loads www.whateveryouron.com/favicon.ico
if your domain is robermyers.com, just put a favicon.ico 16px icon thats accessible, and you're in like flint.
just try this googles or stackoverflows
You need to create a favicon. The favicon uses a standard (in Windows, at least) .ico file. If you have a logo, you can convert it at sites like http://www.favicongenerator.com/
In the <head> of your html page, use the <link> tag to define the location of the favicon like this:
<link type="image/x-icon" rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
You may need to refresh the page for the icon to display.
load a file on the webserver called favicon.ico
In modern browsers other fileformats than .ico works aswell. You can even put animated gif's in there!
DynamicDrive has an easy favicon maker too.
Different pages/directories can also call a different .ico with code similar to y0mbo's example (this is what Mint uses):
<link href="sc/ph645.43/images/icons/mint.ico" rel="icon" type="text/x-icon" />
This is a good article on favicons in detail.
I suspect animated favicons have the potential to go the way of the blink tag. Mint is using theirs to match their overall design, if you visit in FF3, you'll see that it matches the green color that FF uses to designate a recognized SSL cert.