[RESOLVED] Dynamically change the page's shortcut/bookmark icon

[jsun9]

I have a webpage that I'd like to display a different shortcut icon depending on whatever the status is of the app. I have the page pin'd in Firefox so I can always see the icon. Any idea how to accomplish this?

*Edit: Answer Post

[gep13]

Hello,

Is this:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Enabli...kbarInIE9.aspx

What you are referring to?

I know this is possible with IE9, but I don't know whether this is possible with FireFox. I would suspect that it is know.

Gary

[jsun9]

It's literally the shortcut icon I'm trying to change. Basically, make a query and depending on the results, show a different icon.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="~/App_Resources/Web_Icon.ico" />

[gep13]

Hello,

What sort of "query" are you wanting to do?

Are you wanting to do this when the page first loads and is rendered to the client, or are you looking to do this on the page once it is loaded using jQuery/AJAX?

Gary

[jsun9]

As the page first loads. I have a gridview...if it has any rows I want it to show one icon. If it has no rows, show a different icon.

[gep13]

Hello,

In which case, one technique would be to do the following:

<link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="~/App_Resources/Web_Icon.ico" runat="server" id="link" />

First of all, add the runat="server" attribute to the link element and give it an id. This means that you will be able to access this element from your code behind.

Then, in your code, you can do something like the following (Note this is C# code):

link.Attributes["href"] = "~/App_Resources/Web_Icon2.ico";

Hope that helps!

Gary

[jsun9]

Ahh, very cool, that did the trick! Thanks!

[gep13]

Ahh, very cool, that did the trick! Thanks!

Not a problem at all, happy to help!

Gary