ICON in ADDRESS

[User 2371]

Hi, How to place site icon in IE Address text box like you can see in Hotmail.com? Thank in advance.

[Simon]

assuming you have your site www.mysite.com, then in the root, put a file favico.ico [i think] - this will be downloaded onto clients pc's quickneasy so you get your own custom icon on ppls pcs

[Chris Maunder]

Try favicon.ico - Cristi added one to CodeProject.com and it works a treat.

[User 2371]

Hi Chris, Can you provide me the URL?? CodeProject has so much article..So little bit difficult to track. One more ... I don't either it works in Netsacpe or not...? (I have no Netscape!!

[Chris Maunder]

There is no URL - you just need to create an icon for your site, call it favicon.ico, and place this in your website's root directory.

[Lost User]

Chris, Why don't you write it up as a simple article? Seems like enough people would be interested. Also, I see the stanard IE logo beside codeproject.com in my address bar? What am I doing wrong?

[User 2371]

Hi Chris, I had already placed my icon named favicon.ico. But still I can't get my ICON in my IE address. IE version 5.00.xx Web Server: Apache (Latest!!) Thanks for you help. Regards, Sarose Joshi @YSGNet* Nepal

[Chris Maunder]

To have the icon display in IE5 you need to add the site to your 'favorites' list. For some reason the icon that we had was doing some weird things, but Cristi has kindly reworked it and it seems to work fine for me now. Easiest way to demonstrate it is to go back to the CodeProject homepage and click on the "Add to Favorites" link (top left hand corner) to add CodeProject to your favorites. The icon should appear next time you visit the homepage. There are a couple of other ways you can specify favicon's so I guess I'd better write up an article :)