# Link Icon
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-icon/5352
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [March 11, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-icon/5352 "2020-03-11T10:12:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@billyberg](https://community.glideapps.com/u/billyberg)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-icon/5352/1 "2020-03-11T10:12:30Z")
It’s nice that when you insert eg. an Instagram link the link icon changes to an Instagram icon but it would be nice if you could set the icon manually (through a cell or in settings).
I’m working on an app where a Messenger link is embedded but this shows the link-icon. It would be nice to change it to a messenger-icon.
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### Author:  [@Rik\_Ahlberg](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Rik_Ahlberg)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-icon/5352/2 "2020-06-11T19:41:19Z")
I’ll second this request. I was just trying to figure out if it was possible to set an icon for a link (like one does for a tab).
Adding a way to select and icon for each link component would be a big win for detail screens that have a bunch of links that now display generic icons.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-icon/5352/3 "2020-06-11T23:43:23Z")
It would be nice to have it automatically, but you can always have an image that links to your destination URL, does that make sense in your case?
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### Author:  [@Rik\_Ahlberg](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Rik_Ahlberg)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-icon/5352/4 "2020-06-11T23:59:52Z")
Not really. I just want to replace the existing link icon so that it matches along with the others… here’s an example from my [ptowndining.com](http://ptowndining.com) app:
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-icon/5352/5 "2020-06-12T00:03:37Z")
Yeah I see your use case, but if you ever want to have an alternative layout then you can read this post. I think it provides a good look.
> [@Tiles with links!](https://community.glideapps.com/t/tiles-with-links/8109):
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> Wow It is possible to open links from tiles - and that is great !! Inspired by the post by @Robert_Petitto [Hey! List Action \> Open Link Available!](https://community.glideapps.com/t/hey-list-action-open-link-available/8065) I created a little app to exploit this possibility. The app is copyable. The used icons are from [https://www.flaticon.com/](https://www.flaticon.com/) If you want to use them then please check out the terms. I have made an inline list with horizontal scrolling with different types of links: facebook, email, instagram, location, sms, phone… Platform ind…
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 12:54am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-icon/5352/6 "2020-06-12T00:54:40Z")
What I’d really love is to grab the featured image of a website Just from the URL. Similar to how Twitter, buffer (or even Glide apps!) works.
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### Author:  [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-icon/5352/7 "2020-06-12T05:21:29Z")
@ThinhDinh @billyberg before you change to a layout with the action “open link” then you should know it has a defect which hasn’t been addressed yet
> [@Open link return to front page](https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-link-return-to-front-page/8121):
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> My app’s URL: [company-directory.glideapp.io](http://company-directory.glideapp.io) When a link has been visited via “Open link” i Tile layout the user is returned to the front page. See attached video. Click on the Web icon in the horizontal tile layout.
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### Author:  [@Thibaud\_Dubrule](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Thibaud_Dubrule)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-icon/5352/8 "2020-06-15T07:19:39Z")
Hi Robert.
Any news on that topic? I’m really interested in finding a solution for that.
Thibaud
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-icon/5352/9 "2020-06-15T08:55:51Z")
It to my knowledge, no. sorry!
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### Author:  [@garrison](https://community.glideapps.com/u/garrison)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-icon/5352/10 "2020-06-15T14:05:45Z")
Just thinking it wouldn’t be too hard for the Glide team to enable the icon picker from the Tabs screen to customise the icons used in the components.