Information about favicon.ico.

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Answer:

The favicon.ico is a small image which can be used with Internet Explorer 5.0 and above as well as all other recent releases of browsers such as Mozilla Firefox. This small icon allows web masters to have an a small icon next to the URL / Bookmark of the web page. For example, Computer Hope has a small icon of its logo when the page is bookmarked.

Using an icon generator or other utilities, the file favicon.ico must be 16x16 in dimension - 16 colors and must be saved as a .ico file.

The file favicon.ico should be placed in the root directory on the server hosting your web page.

Additional information:

Can the file be named something else, other than favicon.ico?

Yes, within your HTML code use the below tag.

This will cause the browser to look for myown.ico file and use it instead of the favicon.ico. If an older browser or a browser that does not support this feature is being used, the tag will be ignored.

We also recommend that you review the page favicon.com which contains additional information about favicon and an online .ico generator.

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