I would like to have information about the icons which are displayed alongside the site URLs on a web browser. Is this some browser specific feature? Where do we specify the
These icons are called favicons
Most web browsers support http://mysite.com/favicon.ico but the proper way to do it is to include an icon meta tag in the head profile.
<head profile="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile">
<link rel="icon"
type="image/png"
href="/somewhere/myicon.png" />
[…]
</head>
Source from the W3C itself.
Your best bet is to probably do both with the same icon image.
These are favicons - more info on that page.
Basically, .ico files in the root directory on the webserver.
This is called favicon you can look on this tutorial using favicon in asp.net application LINK
The easiest way to get that info is by this simple web app
link text
You only have to type the url of the page and it returns all the image properties
It's called a favicon.
You might want to check out these three questions:
I will just add that some sites use an animated Gif as favicon. Which can be seen as über cool or supremely annoying, depending on your tastes... And probably not supported by all browsers.