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Wallythekat

02-01-2010, 03:22 PM

I would like have the HTML code for my web pages that will put my tiger icon on my page shortcuts that I save to my desktop. I believe its an attribute in the body tag such as:
<body logo=""> or something like that.

When I put a web page shortcut on my desktop an icon for that page appears above the name. I can not find the correct tags by code sourcing a web page that does that. When I save this page to my desktop an icon displays above the name. Please help.

Thanks
Walt

Nile

02-02-2010, 12:35 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
Read about favicons.

Wallythekat

02-03-2010, 05:30 AM

Thanks Nile
So far it does not work. I change any web page from Firefox to IE and then create a shortcut on my desktop. The favicon of the Dynamic Drive Forum page appears on my desktop. I would like my favicon for my pages to appear on my desktop.

Here is my code
<html>
<head>
<title>Camel Jockeys</title>

<link rel='shortcut icon' href='/favicon.ico' /> <---IS THIS CODE CORRECT?
</head>

Here is the address of my favicon

http://wallythekat.tripod.com/favicon.ico

It appears on my address bar but not on my desktop.
Please help
Walt