# How to Insert a Small Flag Icon in Toyhouse Toyhouse is a character-hosting platform popular among artists and writers who build detailed profiles for their original characters (OCs). One common customization request is adding **small flag icons** — typically representing pride flags, nationality flags, or identity labels — to a character's profile. If you've browsed other users' profiles and wondered how those tiny flag images appear inline with text or in sidebar sections, here's how that actually works. ## What "Flag Icons" Actually Are on Toyhouse Toyhouse profiles support **custom HTML and CSS** in certain profile fields, depending on your account's coding permissions. The "flag icons" you see are almost never built-in platform features — they're small images, emoji characters, or icon fonts that users manually embed using HTML markup. There are three main approaches people use: - **Emoji flags** — Unicode flag characters typed or pasted directly into text fields - **Image tags** — Small external or uploaded images referenced with an ` ` HTML tag - **Icon libraries** — CSS-based icon sets like Flag Icon CSS loaded via a ` ` or `