I was making some updates to one of the other websites I help out with over the weekend and wanted to set have an RSS Feed icon in the address bar when users land on the page. That way the user can click on it and add a live bookmark to their toolbar (for example, in FireFox). I didn’t know how to go about doing this. Now I do. Here’s how.
First, you need an RSS/XML feed. That’s a whole other topic. If you want to learn how to easily display an RSS feed on your website, I’d suggest checking out this article.
So once you have a feed (or have the URL of the feed you want to point to) then its just a matter of adding some simple HTML to your web page that will cause the browser to display the RSS icon in the address bar. Simply add the following inside your tag:
That’s it. Pretty easy, eh? Wanna see it in action? Check out www.netcot.com/core/inside.html for a demo.
(This trick doesn’t do jack in IE.)
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