HTML Favicon Icon

A favicon is a small picture that shows up in the browser tab next to the name of the page.

How to Put a Favicon on an HTML Page

You can make your favicon out of any picture you want. You can also make your own favicon on sites like https://www.favicon.cc.

Tip: Since a favicon is small, it should be a simple, high-contrast image.

A favicon is a small image that shows up to the left of the page name in the browser tab.

A Picture of a Favicon

 

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To add a favicon to your website, either save the image to the root directory of your webserver or make a folder called imgin the root directory and save the image there. \”favicon.ico\” is a common name for a file with a favicon.

After the <title> element, add a <link> element to your \”index.php\” file, like this:

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Your Page Title</title>
<link rel=\”icon\” type=\”image/x-icon\” href=\”/img/favicon.ico\”>
</head>
<body>

<h1>Your Heading</h1>
<p>Your paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

 

Favicon File Format Support

The supported file formats for favicon images are displayed in the following table:

BrowserICOPNGGIFJPEGSVG
EdgeYesYesYesYesYes
ChromeYesYesYesYesYes
FirefoxYesYesYesYesYes
OperaYesYesYesYesYes
SafariYesYesYesYesYes