HTML Favicon

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Oct 27, 2023 8:04 am

HTML Favicon

A favicon is a small image displayed next to the page title in the browser tab.

How To Add a Favicon in HTML
You can use any image you like as your favicon. You can also create your own
favicon on sites like
https://www.favicon.cc.

Tip: A favicon is a small image, so it should be a simple image with high contrast.

A favicon image is displayed to the left of the page title in the browser tab, like this:

To add a favicon to your website, either save your favicon image to the root
directory of your webserver, or create a folder in the root directory
called images, and save your favicon image in this folder. A common name for a favicon image is "favicon.ico".
Next, add a <link> element to your "index.html" file,
after the <title> element, like this:

Example

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <title>My Page
Title</title> <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/images/favicon.ico"></head><body>
<h1>This is a Heading</h1><p>This is a paragraph.</p></body></html>

Now, save the "index.html" file and reload it in your browser. Your browser tab should now
display your favicon image to the left of the page title.

Favicon File Format Support
The following table shows the file format support for a favicon image:

Browser
ICO
PNG
GIF
JPEG
SVG

Edge
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

Chrome
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

Firefox
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

Opera
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

Safari
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

Chapter Summary

Use the HTML <link> element to
insert a favicon

HTML Link Tag

Tag
Description

<link>
Defines the relationship between a document and an external resource

For a complete list of all available HTML tags, visit our HTML Tag Reference.

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Reference: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_favicon.asp