Address line icons [Archive] - SpeedGuide.net Broadband Community

mountainman

03-08-02, 06:41 PM

Hi there. I am wondering if anyone knows the HTML or Java or JavaScript to get those little icons in the address line to the left of the URL.

Also, do you know what file type it needs to be saved in and what program will do it?

Thank you so much. :)

master7

03-08-02, 09:40 PM

Can you include a screenshot on what your talking about? with the part circled? I'll probably be able to help you.

Stu

03-09-02, 02:28 AM

They are called "Favorites Icons" and are in icon format (.ico). There's an article on how to do it on Webmonkey (http://www.webmonkey.com/) (a really good place to find anything related to building a website) here (http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/01/18/index1a.html).

TonyT

03-09-02, 08:51 AM

They are called Favicons, pronounced FAVE-ICONS.
They work in IE browsers ONLY.

There are 2 ways to use a favicon:

1. A favicon is a special type of image file. It has the file extension ".ico". Any icon file can be used as a favicon provided the icon file has these properties:

• 16 x 16 pixels
• 256 color
• 1046 bytes

All favicons have the same name - favicon.ico

If this file is in the folder with your other web files on the server, then Internet Explorer will automatically download and use the favicon when your site is bookmarked.

2. Use html code, there a many that will do it. Here's one:

Insert the following LINK tag in the <head>...</head> of
your pages.

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.mydomain.com/myicon.ico">

Change the path and names to correspond with your domain and icon name. In this case, the favicon may be named anything you wish, as long as it is an .ico file made to the above specs. shown in #1.

There are also some java scripts that will do this, but the above 2 methods are easiest and better because many have scripting disabled in their browsers.

Stu

03-09-02, 05:18 PM

They work in IE browsers ONLY.

They work in Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/), Beonex (http://www.beonex.com/communicator/) (based on Mozilla), Netscape 6.0 or better (http://www.netscape.com/) (based on Mozilla), and Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org/) as well. See Favicon.com (http://www.favicon.com/) for more details.

mountainman

03-11-02, 05:14 PM

Awesome, guys!! Thanks!!!

I am wondering what program I can use to get the file in the .ico flavor.

:)

mountainman

03-11-02, 05:32 PM

I think I found it. I downloaded that program that does it. Too bad it costs money after 10 days. Any way around that??

Thanks.:D

gertvanjoe

03-20-02, 02:12 PM

How about Paint:D You can just convert to the right reso and colours and save it as a .ico file :)

mountainman

04-27-02, 05:06 PM

How do I go about changing that file to an .ico file?

Thanks. :)

kieofwoo

04-30-02, 09:15 AM

after you got it in the right resolution etc, just change the file extension manually by 'renaming' the file ?