Customizing the shortcut icon (favicon) using a master page

The shortcut icon, or favicon, is a 16 px by 16 px image that most browsers will display as part of the title bar when viewing a web page as well as when bookmarking the web part. In this recipe, we will change the shortcut icon with our customized master page.

Customizing the shortcut icon (favicon) using a master page

How to do it...

Follow these steps to customize the shortcut icon using the master page:

  1. Open SharePoint Designer.
  2. Select Open Site. Enter the complete URL to the SharePoint site and select Open.
  3. From the Navigation pane, select Master Pages.
  4. In the list of files in the Master Pages library, make a copy of seattle.master (for our example, ...

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