How do you get a small logo in the address bar?

I don't think that IE Explorer supports it, but if you have firefox, you should see a small G in the address bar for GIDForums.

If you go to my site, www.dbcservices.com, it will show up at times and other times it won't. This is the html code that I am using:


Why is this sporadic? Is there a better way to do this? I copied this from the mozilla home page, but theres always works and mine only works sometimes.

Thanks for any comments.

As far as I know the proper format for one would be:


Also, if you just place a file named favicon.ico inside of your root dir, it will automatically show up.

I really don't know what <link rel="icon" href="/graphics/dbc-16.png" type="image/png"> is supposed to be doing but I'd suggest you create your icon in the .ico format and save it as favicon.ico and upload it to your WWW root folder.

In case you're wondering why it works at the www.mozilla.org site, check this out... http://www.mozilla.org/favicon.ico

Thanks both.

I made a favicon.ico and it seems to work now once I cleared the cache on my browser.

The HTML code that I gave, seemed to always put the small logo in the tab, but only occasionaly in the address bar.

I've done this same thing, and even cleaned out my cache yet it's still not using the favicon.ico I created. Any guesses why?

I can help you, I just need to know this:

Provide the link tot he favicon that you are using.
Link us to the page.
What broswers did you test it in and see it is not workin?

Sorry, I assumed everyone would get the link from my signature, but it would help if I didn't misspell it huh?

http://www.astridstudios.com/favicon.ico

I tested it in Internet Explorer 6.0

The favicon works for me in both IE and FF.

Did you add your website to your favorites and then view the favorites list to see if it appeared?

IE does not pull the favicon automatically only when you add it to favourites. That's why it was useful in the old days because websites were able to work out how many people were adding them to their favourites. Now the new generations do it automatically.

Rob

Support for favicons on MSIE is buggy or works just for a little while. As Rob already mentioned, you need to add a web page to your favourites for it to appear and even then it only 'shows' for a little while.... It helps to make it appear for a bit longer by adding a copy of your favicon.ico file inside every sub folder off your website but that just usually gives you a few more days (at best).

Over time, or once you clear your cache (I can't remember the details now), you will notice the 'custom' favicons stored with your favourites will be replaced by the infamous "e" of Internet Explorer...