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Ragol1

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How do you get an icon in the address bar of your site the URL one

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this isn't a javascript question but i'll answer you.

you need to create an icon and put it in the root of your folder. name the icon favicon.ico

There are some freeware and shareware programs that allow you to create favicon.ico files.

Hope this helps. Gary Haran
 
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Check out for really good details on how to make a favicon to use on your site. Einstein47
(Love is like PI - natural, irrational, endless, and very important.)
 
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I looked at and I also have m own icon, which I put in the root directory and names favicon.ico, but it doesn't seem to work. "Nothing is Impossible!"
 
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tried that but it didn't work.

I think the problem might be b/c my ico, is 32px x 32px and the colors are set to millions of colors, instead of 256. "Nothing is Impossible!"
 
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How did you create your icon file? What software did you use? You do know that renaming a BMP file to ICO doesn't work - don't you? That was my biggest error.

Try a different file (seach your PC harddrive for *.ico) and copy that to your favicon.ico for now. Does that work. You can call it some other name if you use cian's trick.

You may need to "Drag the icon to the right a couple of times". That will cause the page to refresh and the icon should show.

Let me know how it goes. Einstein47
(Love is like PI - natural, irrational, endless, and very important.)
 
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I used IconCool Editor, I didn't rename .bmp to .ico
Refreshed several times, and used <LINK> to link it, but it didn't work, I'll try renaming the file to something else. Could be that my isp doesn't support ico files (but when I type inthe address for the icon, I can see it as a little picture?????????????
&quot;Nothing is Impossible!&quot;
 
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swat- the favicon.ico file must be a 256 color, 16x16 file. This is probably the problem. Robert Carpenter
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favicons love to make it difficult for you to see them after you have implemented it! I find the best way to make them appear is too drag the link from the address bar into the Links toolbar, browse to another page, then click the favourite just created. The favicon will then appear for me... After that it displays everytime! Miles
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