How can I get a favicon to show up in my django app?

Question

I just want to drop the favicon.ico in my staticfiles directory and then have it show up in my app.

How can I accomplish this?

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Answer 1

Best practices :

Contrary to what you may think, the favicon can be of any size and of any image type. Follow this link for details.

Not putting a link to your favicon can slow down the page load.

In a django project, suppose the path to your favicon is :

myapp/static/icons/favicon.png

in your django templates (preferably in the base template), add this line to head of the page :

Note :

We suppose, the static settings are well configured in settings.py.