HTML Favicons

Open several tabs from different websites, and each tab shows a tiny picture next to the page title. That picture is the site's icon, usually called a favicon, a short form of "favorite icon." The name comes from the bookmarks list of an early browser, where bookmarks were called favorites.

A favicon helps a reader find your site among many open tabs. The browser shows it in these places:

• the tab, next to the title
• the bookmarks list and the browsing history
• the home screen of a phone, when someone saves the site there

The recipe site from the previous lesson needs one