I have a client who wishes one of these 'favicons' on every page of a fairly
large site, what I'm wondering, in order to save time, is if it's possible
to add the icon via the external stylesheet, instead of laboriously adding
it to each page.
Thank you :)
Paul
Paul Goodwin wrote:
> I have a client who wishes one of these 'favicons' on every page of
> a fairly large site, what I'm wondering, in order to save time, is
> if it's possible to add the icon via the external stylesheet,
> instead of laboriously adding it to each page.
No way that I know of to use CSS for a favicon. You would have to add
the following in the
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> Paul Goodwin wrote:
>> I have a client who wishes one of these 'favicons' on every page of
>> a fairly large site, what I'm wondering, in order to save time, is
>> if it's possible to add the icon via the external stylesheet,
>> instead of laboriously adding it to each page.
>
> No way that I know of to use CSS for a favicon. You would have to add the
> following in the section of the pages. Use correct path, of course:
>
>
>
>
> It must also be a 16x16 true icon file.
>
> This would be easy if the stuff in the were added to each page by a
> script, as I do; one file for the whole site.
>
> Internet Explorer users will not see it unless they bookmark the site, and
> then only until the cache is cleared.
Yes. I was going to suggest putting the whole top area of the page
(generally meta, logo headers, menu) in an include - either ssi or php. You
could include the favicon bit in that.
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Paul Goodwin wrote:
> I have a client who wishes one of these 'favicons' on every page of a
> fairly large site, what I'm wondering, in order to save time, is if it's
> possible to add the icon via the external stylesheet, instead of
> laboriously adding it to each page.
It's sufficient to place the icon as 'favicon.ico' in the root folder of the
site. That's the location a browser will look for (*), when it tries to
load the favicon (look at your server logs and you'll see a lot of 404
error for '/favicon.ico', because it is not present yet).
(*) unless a different location is specified using , but that you require a change of every page - something you
don't want to do.
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>
> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
> news:TYpJe.5615$EX.4657@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> > Paul Goodwin wrote:
> >> I have a client who wishes one of these 'favicons' on every page of
> >> a fairly large site, what I'm wondering, in order to save time, is
> >> if it's possible to add the icon via the external stylesheet,
> >> instead of laboriously adding it to each page.
> >
> > No way that I know of to use CSS for a favicon. You would have to add
the
> > following in the section of the pages. Use correct path, of
course:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > It must also be a 16x16 true icon file.
> >
> > This would be easy if the stuff in the were added to each page by
a
> > script, as I do; one file for the whole site.
> >
> > Internet Explorer users will not see it unless they bookmark the site,
and
> > then only until the cache is cleared.
>
> Yes. I was going to suggest putting the whole top area of the page
> (generally meta, logo headers, menu) in an include - either ssi or php.
You
> could include the favicon bit in that.
That might be what I'm looking for, thanks for all the replies :)
--
Paul
Benjamin Niemann wrote:
> Paul Goodwin wrote:
>
>>I have a client who wishes one of these 'favicons' on every page of a
>>fairly large site, what I'm wondering, in order to save time, is if it's
>>possible to add the icon via the external stylesheet, instead of
>>laboriously adding it to each page.
>
> It's sufficient to place the icon as 'favicon.ico' in the root folder of the
> site. That's the location a browser will look for (*), when it tries to
> load the favicon (look at your server logs and you'll see a lot of 404
> error for '/favicon.ico', because it is not present yet).
>
> (*) unless a different location is specified using , but that you require a change of every page - something you
> don't want to do.
Can this also be done with .htaccess?
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Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
> Benjamin Niemann wrote:
>> Paul Goodwin wrote:
>>
>>>I have a client who wishes one of these 'favicons' on every page of a
>>>fairly large site, what I'm wondering, in order to save time, is if it's
>>>possible to add the icon via the external stylesheet, instead of
>>>laboriously adding it to each page.
>>
>> It's sufficient to place the icon as 'favicon.ico' in the root folder of
>> the site. That's the location a browser will look for (*), when it tries
>> to load the favicon (look at your server logs and you'll see a lot of 404
>> error for '/favicon.ico', because it is not present yet).
>>
>> (*) unless a different location is specified using , but that you require a change of every page - something you
>> don't want to do.
> Can this also be done with .htaccess?
Not directly. You may use mod_rewrite to serve a different file for requests
to '/favicon.ico'. But this .htaccess file must be placed in the root
folder in order to be effective - so there's nothing gained.
--
Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/
Benjamin Niemann wrote:
> Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
>>Benjamin Niemann wrote:
>>>Paul Goodwin wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have a client who wishes one of these 'favicons' on every page of a
>>>>fairly large site, what I'm wondering, in order to save time, is if it's
>>>>possible to add the icon via the external stylesheet, instead of
>>>>laboriously adding it to each page.
>>>
>>>It's sufficient to place the icon as 'favicon.ico' in the root folder of
>>>the site. That's the location a browser will look for (*), when it tries
>>>to load the favicon (look at your server logs and you'll see a lot of 404
>>>error for '/favicon.ico', because it is not present yet).
>>>
>>>(*) unless a different location is specified using , but that you require a change of every page - something you
>>>don't want to do.
>>
>>Can this also be done with .htaccess?
>
> Not directly. You may use mod_rewrite to serve a different file for requests
> to '/favicon.ico'. But this .htaccess file must be placed in the root
> folder in order to be effective - so there's nothing gained.
Thanx for the information.
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Edwin van der Vaart
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