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crash17
10-05-2006, 07:10 PM
I was able to create a favicon and it shows up in my Opera browser but not in IE. I need to find out how to make it show up in IE and other browseres.

Thanks.
bathurst_guy
10-05-2006, 07:14 PM
It needs to be called "favicon.ico" and placed in the root.
crash17
10-05-2006, 08:54 PM
I got it to work. However, it is still not coming up on IE7 for some reason. But that's ok for now as I am going to switch to Mac soon.
stacywacy
10-05-2006, 09:16 PM
I got it to work. However, it is still not coming up on IE7 for some reason. But that's ok for now as I am going to switch to Mac soon.

I used to have a favicon on my website. It showed up fine in one of the browsers I use, but in IE I had to bookmark the page in order for it to show up. You might want to try that to see if it works.
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crash17
10-05-2006, 09:33 PM
I did add it to my favs as it is my website http://www.thedirttrackchannel.com but still nothing showing up on IE.
bathurst_guy
10-05-2006, 09:53 PM
Try adding this tag into the head of the page
<link rel="icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
crash17
10-05-2006, 10:32 PM
Thanks for the code. I did change the code in the website and I downloaded Moizlla and FireFox and when I typed in my webiste, there was the icon. It still is not working in IE. When I type favico.ico after the website address on IE it does show a page where you can see the icon but it comes up as a box with an x in on....oh well, Mac here I come.

Thanks for all of your help and suggestions.
bradymc
11-01-2006, 05:59 PM
I was having the same problem with my favicon not showing in IE7. Here's what I found out. The program I used to genereate my favicon created, in my best guess, two versions within the same file. One was 32x32 and the other was 16x16. After I opened the file in the program and deleted the 32x32 version, I uploaded the favicon to my site. I deleted the temporary internet files and the history then closed and reopened IE. There it was.
WebJoel
11-01-2006, 07:04 PM
32 x 32 is a desktop icon. 16 x 16 is a favicon. :)
webfinity
11-02-2006, 09:42 AM
IE7 is better for displaying favicons than IE6, but it is still a little querky.
ktupea39
01-11-2008, 01:37 PM
Visit my site at www.blogpestcontrol.com...you should see a scorpion favicon. If you are able to see the scorpion favicon simply just clear your cache and it should work fine. The syntax you should use in your header file is:

<link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
a.g.r.c
01-25-2008, 02:01 AM
Make sure the favicon is 16x16 as mentioned and stored in the www or route directory of your server.
Major Payne
01-26-2008, 01:30 AM
It had been suggested that both of the following HTML lines should be included:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">
<link rel="icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">

Only the former is necessary, as 'shortcut icon' will be treated as a list of possibilities by standards-compliant browsers (with "shortcut" being ignored, and "icon" used); while Internet Explorer will treat it as a single name ("shortcut icon"). The result is that all browsers understand the code. It is only necessary to include a second piece of code if one desires to offer an alternative image to modern browsers (e.g. an animated GIF).

1) The link elements must be inside the head element (between <head> and </head>) in the HTML.
2) For XHTML, the link element must be terminated by " />" instead of ">".
3) The href can, but need not, point to the location /favicon.ico. It could point to any URL.
4) The image can usually be in any image format supported by the web browser.
5) The .ico file format will be read correctly by all browsers that can display favicons.
6) Configure the web server to send the correct MIME identifier:
a) ICO files image/vnd.microsoft.icon (Alternatively, image/x-icon can be used instead, for compatibility reasons. However, it is preferable to use the IANA-registered MIME type, as most major browsers now support it.)
b) GIF files image/gif
c) PNG files image/png
7) Use the appropriate resolution and color depth.
a) ICO: include multiple resolutions (the most commonly used being 16×16 and 32×32, with 64×64 and 128×128 sometimes used by Mac OS X) and bit-depths (most common being 4, 8, 24 bpp—i.e. 16, 256 and 16 million colors) in the file.
b) GIF: use 16×16 in 256 colors.
c) PNG: use 16×16 in either 256 colors or 24-bit.

Note: favicon.ico, when located in the document root directory, will also be found by some browsers that do not process the link elements, even if it is not linked from anywhere on your site.

Some suggestions that have been made to get IE to show favicons is to add page to your favorites or try clicking on favicon in address bar and moving it back and forth before unclicking. Never tried either as I don't use IE. :D

Ron
ggg
09-10-2009, 05:40 PM
I made a favicon it is loaded rite but didnt regester.
help me!
dhondu
09-24-2009, 06:28 PM
Usavally when you upload Favicon it takes 2 days to display first time. Also i found bugs in older version of Internet explorer while displying favicon.version 8 they fix that problame

in btw i got my favicon from www.newssite.in/favicons/
skilled1
10-01-2009, 01:51 PM
Go here: http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ and follow the directions.

Then place the favicon in your root folder of your website. Can take up to 2 days to show up, usually 20 minutes.