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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />';
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />';


Most modern browsers will pickup that you have a favicon if it is placed on your site or forum root [main folder] without any code edits given that the file is named correctly "favicon.ico"
Most modern browsers will pickup that you have a favicon if it is placed on your site or forum root [main directory] without any code edits given that the file is named correctly "favicon.ico"




[[Category:FAQ]]
[[Category:FAQ]]

Revision as of 16:15, 11 September 2012

A favicon is the little image that is shown in a browser's bookmarks, address bar or tabs when displaying pages from a particular site. The default favicon is the favicon.ico file and one is supplied with the SMF installation.

To change which image is used edit /Themes/default/index.template.php as follows:

Find <head> then add after:

echo ' <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />';

Most modern browsers will pickup that you have a favicon if it is placed on your site or forum root [main directory] without any code edits given that the file is named correctly "favicon.ico"



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