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Easily show a Favicon in SharePoint 2010

In SharePoint 2007 we had to mess around with the typical HTML tag for the favicon:



In SharePoint 2007 we had to mess around with the typical HTML tag for the favicon:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/Style%20Library/Images/favicon.ico/>

But, in SharePoint 2010 there is a special control for adding favicons:
<sharepoint:spshortcuticon runat="server" iconurl="/Style Library/Images/favicon.ico"/>

this control u can find it in Master page in tag

but since its a control you can easily use things like $SPUrl to help with the paths.

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