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by **Seattle Eri** » Fri, 27 Jun 2003 06:29:19

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Is it possible under Windoze to associate an icon with an HTML
file? So that the user sees something other than the standard html
icon?

(FWIW, it's for a 3d client................)

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by **Brizo** » Fri, 27 Jun 2003 06:49:54

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| Is it possible under Windoze to associate an icon with an HTML
| file? So that the user sees something other than the standard html
| icon?
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| (FWIW, it's for a 3d client................)

its a bit of html code IIRC, google for it, or find a site that does it
(check through your favorites to see if you have one there already) and see
what they did, its relativly easy though from what i remember

by **Ma3r** » Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:04:59

If you create a Shortcut to the html file & place that on the Desktop, then
you can change the icon & easily rename. Just Rt click the shortcuts icon
to get to its Properties.

M.
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Quote:> OFF TOPIC: 'WWWAAAYYY OFF TOPIC

> Is it possible under Windoze to associate an icon with an HTML
> file? So that the user sees something other than the standard html
> icon?

> (FWIW, it's for a 3d client................)

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by **Brizo** » Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:10:41

| If you create a Shortcut to the html file & place that on the
| Desktop, then you can change the icon & easily rename. Just Rt click
| the shortcuts icon to get to its Properties.
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| M.
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|| Is it possible under Windoze to associate an icon with an HTML
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ohhhh, i thought he wanted it for a specific html file to work automatically
when someone went to the site, my bad

by **u..** » Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:00:55

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> Is it possible under Windoze to associate an icon with an HTML
> file? So that the user sees something other than the standard html
> icon?

If you mean an icon in the title bar of a browser - I'm no html expert,
but here's how I did it, based on instructions snagged from the web.
Make a 16X16 icon. Name it favicon.ico. Put it in the root dir of your
website. Include the following code in each page of the site on which
you wish the icon to appear in the URL bar:

I put the code between HEAD and BODY, but I don't remember why.

[www.WHATEVER.com] is to be substituted with the name of the site
inflicted with the tiny icon. See my URL below for an example...

_______________
Frank?? Panucci
www.frankpanucci.com

by **Will** » Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:43:01

Quote:
>OFF TOPIC: 'WWWAAAYYY OFF TOPIC

> Is it possible under Windoze to associate an icon with an HTML
>file? So that the user sees something other than the standard html
>icon?

> (FWIW, it's for a 3d client................)

You can associate a specific icon with all HTML files, but it's a per-computer
thing, not a per-file thing.

Of course, this is very easy with System 7 and later for the Mac... :P

Unfortunately, the only easy was I can think of to do what you want involves
building an actual .exe file, and that involves a *very* broad definition of
"easy..."
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by **Seattle Eri** » Sat, 28 Jun 2003 04:18:06

> If you create a Shortcut to the html file & place that on the Desktop, then
> you can change the icon & easily rename. Just Rt click the shortcuts icon
> to get to its Properties.

This is for distribution on a CD--- would a shortcut work on a CD??

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by **Seattle Eri** » Sat, 28 Jun 2003 04:20:24

Cool, Frank, but what I meant was ........man it's hard to phrase! My
customer will be distributing CDs in HTML format. I just want to swap in
their logo for the standard html icon that you see when you open the
folder/disk etc.

Thanks for the help!

> > OFF TOPIC: 'WWWAAAYYY OFF TOPIC

> > Is it possible under Windoze to associate an icon with an HTML
> > file? So that the user sees something other than the standard html
> > icon?

> If you mean an icon in the title bar of a browser - I'm no html expert,
> but here's how I did it, based on instructions snagged from the web.
> Make a 16X16 icon. Name it favicon.ico. Put it in the root dir of your
> website. Include the following code in each page of the site on which
> you wish the icon to appear in the URL bar:

> <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.WHATEVER.com/favicon.ico">

> I put the code between HEAD and BODY, but I don't remember why.

> [www.WHATEVER.com] is to be substituted with the name of the site
> inflicted with the tiny icon. See my URL below for an example...

> _______________
> Frank?? Panucci
> www.frankpanucci.com

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by **u..** » Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:09:08

> Cool, Frank, but what I meant was ........man it's hard to phrase! My
> customer will be distributing CDs in HTML format. I just want to swap in
> their logo for the standard html icon that you see when you open the
> folder/disk etc.

The default icons for filetypes, such as HTML, are read from libraries,
.EXEs, or lone .ICO files at Windows startup, so, a PC used to view your
CD will see its own default icon for an HTML file in the root.

I guess you can follow another earlier suggestion, and hide your entry
HTML file away in a folder, and point to it with a shortcut with a
custom icon. I haven't tried that...

As to how to do it on the Mac, who knows about that stuff. Mac users, I
guess.

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Frank?? Panucci
www.frankpanucci.com

by **Ma3r** » Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:16:55

That's getting out of my area of knowledge to be honest, but I'd think it
would. The shortcut link has to be valid of course. Should be pretty easy
to test.

M.
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> > If you create a Shortcut to the html file & place that on the Desktop,
then
> > you can change the icon & easily rename. Just Rt click the shortcuts
icon
> > to get to its Properties.

> This is for distribution on a CD--- would a shortcut work on a CD??

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> ** Look! There's ARAT in the middle of "separate"!
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