using favicon with css

Question

I want to set the favicon for a fairly large number of pages. But, instead of using the HTML tag

Answer 1

You can't set a favicon from CSS - if you want to do this explicitly you have to do it in the markup as you described.

Most browsers will, however, look for a favicon.ico file on the root of the web site - so if you access http://example.com most browsers will look for http://example.com/favicon.ico automatically.