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HTML Favicon

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Summary

Favicon is a small icon that appears in the browser tabs, bookmarks, and address bar as a site's identity marker. Favicon is defined in the <head> section using the <link> element with the rel="icon" and the href attribute to the image file. Common favicon formats are .ico, .png, or SVG, and some browsers support emoji as a practical icon.

Key points

Favicon is a small site marker icon in the browser tab
Defined in <head> by <link rel="icon" href="...">
Common formats: .ico, .png, and SVG
Favicon.ico in the root of the site is often automatically detected by the browser

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