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rahil23 (2005-10-15 00:00:00): http://www.braintoneinfo.com/
i am not able to see the fav icon in IE and also only in the tabbed heading in firefox
please help me

Vlasta (2005-10-15 00:00:00): I have checked your site and the favicon is showing without problems in both IE and Firefox on my computer. Did you try all the hints given above? Especially adding the page to favorites and clearing IE cache before.

Unknown author (2005-10-17 00:00:00): Hi,
I have performed all the steps regarding the FAVICON to be displayed in the IE. But it is not getting displayed.

Vlasta (2005-10-17 00:00:00): Well, your web site is OK, the problem is with your computer. Here are some more extreme recommendations: change your default browser to IE, delete all bookmarks to your site, clear IE cache, history folder, and recycle bin, restart computer, bookmark your page and then click a few times on the bookmark.

Unknown author (2005-11-02 00:00:00): This Favicon things is quite silly on internet explorer.

One thing you can do, if you want the icon to be visible in your explorer, do like you do when you make a shortcut to a page on you desktop but drag the URL (or rather the little e-icon nex to the adress) to the internet explorer window itself so that it reloads the page.

Do that twice.

Suddenly the icon is visible.

Reloading alone does not cut it.

Considering that it was internet explorer that came up with this thing with an icon its really super-silly that it works fantasticly on Firefox...

Unknown author (2005-11-20 00:00:00): thanks so much

Unknown author (2005-11-27 00:00:00): Favicon can also be used in the latest Firefox to display a .gif file and hence a moving icon!

make sure you put in two of the favicon generators as follows:
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon2.ICO">
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.gif">
IE selects the .ico file and firefox displays the moving.gif!

Unknown author (2005-11-27 00:00:00): see an example here:
http://www.georgewood.clara.net/dh/

fewtrem (david wood)

Vlasta (2005-11-27 00:00:00): Thanks for the info about animated favicons.

geofgibson (2005-11-28 00:00:00): I can't get IE to show my favicon. It shows up in Safari and Firefox with no problem. I've tried the various steps recommended, but to no avail.
http://soundsurgeon.tv

geofgibson (2005-11-28 00:00:00): Of course, now that I've refreshed the page 2 dozen or so times, the favicon now shows up!
F^&*$^&&! windows...

Unknown author (2005-12-05 00:00:00): I wasn't aware of Fx being able to show gif instead of ico... good to know. Now if I can just figure out how to make my idea look good at such a small size I'm all set!

Laurent (2005-12-19 00:00:00): Sorry I did try all the paths above and read all the comments but still cant get it shown in ie in my website
http://www.accro-web.com
maybe it does show but not in my computer?
Can someone help me :) ?
thx in advance
Laurent

Vlasta (2005-12-20 00:00:00): Your favicon is a renamed BMP. While Firefox understands it, IE requires a real Windows icon.

Unknown author (2005-12-24 00:00:00): thanx a lot Vlasta, you seem to be right and I'll change it (in fact it's a renamed .png)

Unknown author (2006-01-02 00:00:00): ?

Unknown author (2006-01-02 00:00:00): This page was very helpful! I've been looking everywhere to find out how to get an 'icon'... (didn't even know what it was called!) but now I have one working... if only all browers showed the animated one!

Unknown author (2006-01-02 00:00:00): checkout crunkedout.com and see if you can see the animated one or the still one...

Vlasta (2006-01-02 00:00:00): Firefox show the animated one there

Unknown author (2006-01-05 00:00:00): Thanks alot, people like this make the web go around =)

tpkyteroo (2006-01-31 00:00:00): I can not get the link to work on my site and I do use Mozilla Firefox. I tried using an ico file and a gif file. I changed the href different ways and it still does not work. Could it be that the server that hosts my site needs to allow one to use this feature? This does not make sense to me, but I can't imagine what I could possibly be doing wrong. The java script console just gives me my css errors. Thanks!

tpkyteroo (2006-01-31 00:00:00): I got it to work by using the gif file with the full url address to the image. I realized that I tried the full url address with the ico file instead of the gif file. Either my host does not support ico files, or the program I used does not allow ico files to actually work in a trial version.

Thanks!!!!

sHasHaNk kuMAr (2006-02-16 00:00:00): my favicon doesn't seem to work either! do help me out some 1!
Thanx 4 support. >> Free Site problem probably

http://www.geocities.com/shashank8kumar

Vlasta (2006-02-17 00:00:00): You need to specify the icon in a top level frame, which probably is not under your control on geocities.

pharius (2006-05-05 00:00:00): Great guide! I made a favicon for my site and it works fine in Firefox and IE7 but not in IE6. I tried adding the page to favorites and it shows there but not in the address bar. I also deleted all of my temp internet files but still no luck. Do you have any other suggedtions?

Unknown author (2006-05-09 00:00:00): Hi, I added this text on my html page.. but IE7 still doesn't show the favicon.ico.

<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />

I'm running this locally,
I'm using apache 2.0 and PHP 4.4.2

Works great in Mozilla Firefox, Opera 8.54, Netscape 8.0.4. I also did all the things that you said.

Please help.. Thanks.

Vlasta (2006-05-09 00:00:00): Try using absolute path. For IE6, the icon should be in the webserver root (http://localhost/favicon.ico). Also, it could be incorrect icon format.

jbolton (2006-05-11 00:00:00): Hi, having no luck with favicon showing up in IE:

http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/test.shtml

Please help!
Thanks, J

The Pirate (2006-05-18 00:00:00): Hey - wow - i thought this one was gonna be the fix! \
But that damned little square still won't load ... i've included the code but its still not getting picked up (www.illfm.net) and the icon is in the top level and inside the main site folder.
Any more suggestions ?

nikko (2006-05-24 00:00:00): Even Google does not show its favicon in IE so what chance have we???

Unknown author (2006-05-26 00:00:00): nikko is right...
the favicon does not show in IE!
all fine with FF.
IE su**!

Unknown author (2006-06-01 00:00:00): Thanks for your suggestions on the installation of Favicon.
However, I tried all your fixes for IE and after much aggrevation I got the icon for your site and for my site to show both in the address line and in the bookmarks for IE v6. However, as soon as I close the IE browser and open it again I lose my icon, AND the favicon for your site in both the address line and the bookmarks.
Firefox, opera, and Netscape all took the favicon just fine.

Thanks,
Sharon Wood
Web Developer.

Unknown author (2006-06-29 00:00:00): For who can't display favicon on IE.
Try this:
Go to tools> internet options> advanced> navigation> activate personalized "favorite" menu.
I've tried this and it's working good now.
But still I have to add the page to favorites to display the favicon.
Good luck.

kathiek (2006-07-12 00:00:00): I have successfully posted a favicon at www.firstnemo.org - is there a way for it to show up in the Title bar at the top of the browser (and not just in the URL address bar)? I tried to add an image tag as part of the title but that didn't work.

Vlasta (2006-07-12 00:00:00): AFAIK it is not possible with current browsers.

MrBernard (2006-07-18 00:00:00): It seems to me that IE 6 only adds favicon for bookmarked pages. So if your site is dynamic then one would have to add bookmarks for all pages... You can easily test this with for instance Wikipedia. Firefox works like a dream...

Unknown author (2006-08-03 00:00:00): mine shows up in my favorites.. it has both the 16x16 and a 32x32 in the ico file... shows in fav list and when browsing the fav folder it shows the big one... but does not show in the address bar... winxp, ie6

Unknown author (2006-10-05 00:00:00): To get this to work with IE 6, make sure a 16x16, 32x32, and 48x48 in the ico file. I tried all kinds of tricks to get it to show, but that was the only thing that worked.

Unknown author (2006-10-11 00:00:00): it's fine

sbmkrishna (2006-10-18 00:00:00): My IE browser is not showing the favicon.ico. If i open like www.softcrylic.com/favicon.ico, the browser is not showing the icon. I even tried Go to tools> internet options> advanced> navigation> activate personalized "favorite" menu. But its not working. I think if i can dispaly that icon in the browser, then it works in the address bar. So please help me what should i do to display that icon in the browser

Vlasta (2006-10-18 00:00:00): Your favicon is a PNG image, not a real icon. While Firefox accepts any image format, you need a proper .ico file for IE.

sisam (2006-10-21 00:00:00): I tried everything suggested above to see the favicon in IE but it is not working. www.nazaydemir.com is the website... it is working perfectly in firefox....

Unknown author (2006-10-22 00:00:00): I tryed the code but supose doenst work whitout a webpage

Unknown author (2006-10-27 00:00:00): I am trying to add a favicon to my site, but I want to test it first to make sure that it works. Does this code work - <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"> or do I need to direct it to my site somewhere for example <link rel="shortcut icon" href="www.example.com/images/favicon.ico">

Vlasta (2006-10-29 00:00:00): The first version is correct. If you want your favicon to be shown in IE6, it must be in the root of your site and called exactly favicon.ico

Dave (2006-10-30 00:00:00): Thank you for responding Vlasta but it is still not working, <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico"> I have it 16x16 the correct code, not sure what to do from here, any suggestions?

Vlasta (2006-10-30 00:00:00): You should use absolute path - that is including the leading slash. And you should place it to the root directory, not to any subdirectory. Otherwise it would not work with IE6. Other than that, I would suggest to read the previous comments.

SeattleRetro (2006-11-11 00:00:00): Just want to say thanks for your site--I was able to get the icon working for IE6 finally.
For those who have Photoshop, there was a free plug-in to do .ico files. I used the 16x16 size.
And I notice here on this site you used a relative (vs. absolute) placement for your .ico file--and sure enough, it shows in Firefox, but not in IE6!

manzanofab (2006-11-21 00:00:00): Hi my name is fabian i dont know what happen with the ie my favicon.ico is in the root file, and it works with the opera but it does not work in the ie what could be the problem,
i made the favicon in fireworks and in dreamweaver i change the .jpg to .ico
i dont know if this could be the problem
please heeeellllppp me
thanks

Vlasta (2006-11-22 00:00:00): Favicon should (and in case of IE must) be an .ico file. It is not enough to rename a .jpg to .ico.

Unknown author (2006-11-26 00:00:00): Wow

Girish (2006-11-29 00:00:00): I had added the give statement in the head section of my web page. It is working all fine in Mozilla but not working on Internet Explorer. Though I have IE6 but it is not working. I had also tried to add the page as favourite but still it is showing the IE icon

Vlasta (2006-11-30 00:00:00): There are more hints in the comment section, but usually this kind of problem is caused by slow refresh of IE.

DiverFrank (2006-12-02 00:00:00): Hi
After creating my favicon and following your instructions it still does not appear. Our home page uses frames and I have inserted the line of code in the frames page and also both pages that are shown in the frames any suggestions?

Vlasta (2006-12-02 00:00:00): I have checked your site and it seems that you have not uploaded the favicon ;-). It should be accessible at www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico

DiverFrank (2006-12-03 00:00:00): Hi
The icon file had the extension in upper case, forgot that Linux is case sensitive, the favicon is however still not coming up when I open internet explorer (version 7) any more help would be appreciated
Thanks

Vlasta (2006-12-04 00:00:00): Works all right from my computer in both IE6 and IE7. One minor thing - your icon is 32x32 pixels, you should add a 16x16 format.

TomasV (2006-12-04 00:00:00): I can't get this working again using IE7. Firefox is all good. ico created using photoshop plug-in. 16x16pix 400bytes.
www.martinassociates.co.uk

Vlasta (2006-12-05 00:00:00): use rel="shortcut icon", not just rel="icon" and use absolute path to the icon ... href="/favicon.ico" <- just like in the example in the article

Unknown author (2006-12-07 00:00:00): My icon is not showing. Any help would be appreciated. It shows in Mozilla no problem, but not in any version of IE. The URL is http://tesolarabia.org

Vlasta (2006-12-07 00:00:00): Works all right from here.

Unknown author (2006-12-09 00:00:00): My icon is not showing up www.bikini2990.net

dasadler (2006-12-10 00:00:00): I think I have done everything right yet the favicon does not appear. At least not for me. Anyone else see it? http://appliedintegrity.us

Vlasta (2006-12-10 00:00:00): both bikini2990.net and appliedintegrity.us favicons show without problems from here.

blakenewman-com (2006-12-10 00:00:00): It works when I type blakenewman.com but does not when I type www.blakenewman.com. Is that a matter of my cache or my temporary internet files?

Vlasta (2006-12-10 00:00:00): works for both addresses for me, BUT: favicon should be 16x16 pixels - yours has all but this format and a file length of over 350kB!

Vivid (2006-12-18 00:00:00): www.vividbroadcast.co.uk has an icon that works fine in anything but IE. in IE6 it appears in the favorites when added but not in the URL bar.

Vlasta (2006-12-19 00:00:00): After you add it to favorites in IE6 and click on that link in favorites, it will show in address bar. But only for that single page.

UKuser (2006-12-19 00:00:00): Hi. Done all you have said and I can't seem to view the favicon? My URL is www.directsubmit.co.uk Any ideas?

Unknown author (2006-12-19 00:00:00): I have tried everything, works in every browser on every system but IE 7...arg... www.advantageofficesuites.com

Unknown author (2006-12-19 00:00:00): I can't seem to get my favicon to view on the page. I use IE 7 and the page is alchristian.com Any help would be appreciated.

Vlasta (2006-12-20 00:00:00): www.directsubmit.co.uk and www.advantageofficesuites.com work without problems. Favicon at alchristian.com should only contain 16x16 pixel images.

Unknown author (2006-12-20 00:00:00): I can't get it to work either. Does favicon show up for you in www.patong.biz?

Unknown author (2006-12-21 00:00:00): hi,
well my favicon working on mozila(2.0) and not work on IE(6.0)

Regards,
Minhajkk

Wheatworks (2006-12-27 00:00:00): I find it actually takes two lines in the page headers to make a favicon work well across all browsers:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.wheatworks.com/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="http://www.wheatworks.com/favicon.ico">

Perhaps this will help those with problems in certain browsers.

Rick Wheat
www.wheatworks.com

Unknown author (2006-12-27 00:00:00): Mine won't work on IE 7.0

GoldDog (2006-12-30 00:00:00): Wheatworks, I added your extra tag, but IE 6 still continues to ignore my favicon. Any other workarounds exist for IE?

Vlasta (2006-12-31 00:00:00): The two lines are not necessary unless you want to use different favicons in IE and Firefox. The rel="icon" line is ignored by IE and only affects Firefox.
If you are having problems in IE6, check you page from another computer. It is usually only a caching issue.

Unknown author (2007-01-02 00:00:00): I am using IE6. I tried all above said tricks. But the icon is showing in Favorites list only and not in Address Bar. It is working find in Firefox.
Plz reply.
sbhutani.tech@gmail.com

Unknown author (2007-01-05 00:00:00): I am using IE7. I tried all the above tricks mentioned and still I can’t see Favicon in the address bar. It is working find in Fire fox.

Can you help me with this?

Melusine (2007-01-09 00:00:00): I am in the same situation. Have tried for a while now to get IE7.0 to show the favicon on my site but no luck. Also went through all the steps mentioned above - no change. Any other suggestions? This is driving me nuts...

RSC (2007-01-09 00:00:00): It works fine with Firefox. Can't get to work with MS

Melusine (2007-01-09 00:00:00): Not the answer I had hoped for :-( Especially since all other websites show up with the favicon, just my own is not working regardless of what I do.

Vlasta (2007-01-10 00:00:00): People, its kind of hard to help you unless you also include the url of your sites ;-).

Unknown author (2007-01-11 00:00:00): Tiffani=Can you add a favicon to your myspace page?

Vlasta (2007-01-11 00:00:00): I am not sure, I do not have a MySpace account. It should be possible if you can modify the page header.

zonda (2007-01-11 00:00:00): i have tried to get my favicon to work in IE7 but can't any ideas? Works fine in Firefox

RSC (2007-01-12 00:00:00): One that works with Firefox and NetScape
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/animated_favicon1.gif">
Some of the ones I've tried with MS IE6 without any luck
The file facicon.ico is in the root path
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
or
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
or
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.web-site/favicon.ico">
There were a couple other things I found and tried with no luck

Unknown author (2007-01-12 00:00:00): Yet another case of works in FF, not in IE (only tried IE 6). URL...

http://development.web.bareescentuals.demandware.net/on/demandware.store/Sites-BareMinerals-Site

you can open: http://development.web.bareescentuals.demandware.net/favicon.ico

Tried the provided suggestions, but no joy. Maybe someone from MS will visit this site and tell us all what we're doing wrong?

Vlasta (2007-01-13 00:00:00): The icon file is OK, but it does not show from my computer either. Did you try to use "/favicon.ico" instead of referencing a different domain?

mike (2007-01-17 00:00:00): I've added a favicon to my web page and it displays in the favorities but not in the address bar. I'm using IE7 is there something I'm not doing?

Tysonjm (2007-01-19 00:00:00): How come favicons work in IE7 for sites like www.bankofamerica.com or clickforlessons.com, since when you view their source code, there's no refernce to the <link rel= ... method? I'm confused; how are they doing it? :0 I'm unable to get it to work for www.icedpitamusiclessons.com by the way. :(

Vlasta (2007-01-19 00:00:00): Sometimes browsers just use for favicon.ico from the root directory. And your site works OK.

Tysonjm (2007-01-19 00:00:00): Sorry, not sure why my previous post reposted itself. Funny, you're seeing my site work OK with the favicon. I've tried it on 5 computers now with different versions of IE to no avail. Very strange!

Vlasta (2007-01-20 00:00:00): I have opened it in IE6, added to bookmarks and favicon appeared... Then after a click on the bookmark it also showed in address bar as it should.

Tysonjm (2007-01-21 00:00:00): Thanks, I did finally get IE6 to work only after adding to bookmarks. IE7 still doesn't, however. I still wonder though how these sites do it, that I've never been to before, much less bookmarked. Like yours, it loaded upon my first visit in IE7! Why's it work?

Tysonjm (2007-01-21 00:00:00): Fixed it by adding: type="image/x-icon" to the line. So, <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

Unknown author (2007-01-21 00:00:00): ADI I have tried this line at IE7 and it didn’t work…

Unknown author (2007-01-23 00:00:00): me using https protocol is there any problem with https for displaying favicon.

regards,
Minhajkk

mickapoos (2007-01-27 00:00:00): I have followed the directions, my website is www.find-my-plane.com and the favicon isn't displaying. Thank you

Vlasta (2007-01-28 00:00:00): Looks OK form here in Firefox and IE6. One note though - you are missing the closing ">" on some of your meta tags.

paradox (2007-01-30 00:00:00): http://www.juancolebeta2.com/

The favicon never sticks with IE 7 on this site. I've tried all the different tags, just nothing, all is well in Mozialla. It creases me, I duplictaed everything here perfectly, cleared the cache, used and absolute url, modidifed the tag from above, added the (space)/> at the end of the tag for xhtml, still nothing. Any ideas?

Vlasta (2007-01-31 00:00:00): The problem is in your favicon.ico file - it is a renamed gif image and IE requires a real .ico format.

paradox (2007-01-31 00:00:00): Thank you so much, I appreciate it. I apologize for the triple comment post, I didn't realize a refresh was re-posting.

Again, bless you for the answer. Thank you.

paradox (2007-01-31 00:00:00): I am not really sure what a "real" ico format is, other than re-naming it. Photoshop doesn't recognize ico files, and I could only work with the jpg that was given to me.

Okay, unclear on the concept, it's not exactly a new experience for me in this life. Go to those sites that generate this ico file for you, since you can't do it. I did. I replaced it on the server twice and it still won't show in IE.

In interviewing for a Manager job so I can flee IE. It's not worth it in this life. Anything further you can suggest, thank you very much, I'm not stressing. It's a bona fide ico on the root, still klunks.

Vlasta (2007-01-31 00:00:00): I have checked the site from IE6 and it seems to work fine. It is probably just a caching issue on your computer.

gf (2007-02-01 00:00:00): Sharan: Hi, as discussed in the forum,

I added the favicon.ico in to my Tomcat web server (ROOT Folder). Is this enough to make the favicon work for all the pages?

My requirement is to have the little icon on the address bar without bookmarking the page. We cannot request the user to bookmark to see our company icon. How do I force this to happen with out bookmark? Our application has around 50 jsp files. Should I had <LINK> element in all the jsp files. Please help me out. Thanks, Sharan.

pc (2007-02-01 00:00:00): Hi,
the icon just won't show up in front of the address for IE7. It does on Firefox and Safari. But none of them displayed the icons when I saved them as favorite or saved it as shortcut on my desktop. Can you please help me out? www.apcommerce.net
Thanks!
Patricia

Vlasta (2007-02-01 00:00:00):
Sharan: you should add the <link ... - it does not maater what technology you use on the server. And for IE6 susers must add the page to favorites, for other browsers, the icon shows just by visiting the page.

Patricia: Your favicon works in IE7, it just takes a more time to display, because there is relatively lot of data on your page.

Unknown author (2007-02-02 00:00:00): I tried all the directions to display it for IE but i cannot get it to display. I can however get it in firefox and opera. Can you help. www.pay4rent.com

Unknown author (2007-02-03 00:00:00): ok, can anyone help me here? Tried all these suggestions, but am using joomla in combo with a one-fits-all template. Got so many index.htm, index.phps all over, I'm just lost. Favicon works in Firefox... here it ain't. http://blakesands.com Thanks.

Vlasta (2007-02-03 00:00:00): pay4rent:
yout .ico file is relly a renamed .jpg - you need a real .ico format
blakesnads: put your favicon to the root directory

Unknown author (2007-02-04 00:00:00): hey, this is the blakesands.com poster again. Favicon is everywhere, including the root, but joomla has a special config for it, and wants it in the /images/ folder. And, TA-DA! It works for me, and I hope for you too. AGAIN, I concur... it is first a file location issue AND also a cache problem. Also, adding it to favs seems to help the icon show correctly. Thanks all for your help. I spent hours on this, only to discover from another computer that favicon shows just fine in IE on the first try.

Unknown author (2007-02-04 00:00:00): blakesands.com poster, again, here... another interesting fact. IE ignores any icon that is not 16x16 and in official ico format. Search for a free icon editor if you need to adjust size, there are lots of free and trial ico editors out there.

Unknown author (2007-02-05 00:00:00): the favicon still not showing in IE 5, 6 and 7... I tried evey thing! my web site is arabimages.com

Best,

Sam

Vlasta (2007-02-05 00:00:00): No wonder, your html is a big mess. There are at least two </head> tags on your page.

Choakster (2007-02-07 00:00:00): paradox (2007-01-31): "Photoshop doesn't recognize ico files"
As an FYI to those who use Photoshop. There is a free plugin that will add ico support which can be found at.
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/

Good Luck,
Choakster

sonny.tee (2007-02-08 00:00:00): Hi, I feel that i've added the favicon.ico tag correctly:

<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
www.fordpas.org - the icon shows up in FireFox and Safari, but not in IE 6 nor 7. Do i just need to wait a bit?

I've gone over all these forums and cant find the answer. I generated the Icon using an Icon generator and it looks good in those other browers, but most of our people use IE.

Thanks a lot!
Son

Vlasta (2007-02-09 00:00:00): looks OK from here in both IE6 and IE7

Unknown author (2007-02-11 00:00:00): i have tried all the steps to show icon for my page but still it doesn't show up.

HardHead (2007-02-16 00:00:00): Mine worked Great!!!! thank you folks for all the help :)

HardHead (2007-02-16 00:00:00): I have one question..How can I use this on a php site that has no html intro?

HardHead (2007-02-16 00:00:00): Sonny Tee I see the Icon just fine on your site. Looks Good

Vlasta (2007-02-16 00:00:00): There should be no problem with php. Php, like all similar technologies, just produce html code. But, of course, you have to find the right place in the script you are using.

HardHead (2007-02-16 00:00:00): LOL yea so I see but everything I have tried hasnt worked.. But I'll keep trying

Unknown author (2007-02-21 00:00:00): firefox used to display favicons just fine until the latest version (2.0.0.1) - then they showed up from other sites, but not mine, until I added the "shortcut icon" tag in the headers. Strange, because firefox never needed that before as long as favicon.ico was in the root web directory.

Unknown author (2007-02-23 00:00:00): I have tried everything I know to put this on php but nothing works Help!!!!!!!!

Unknown author (2007-02-24 00:00:00): same problem as with sonny.tee...........

Mozilla Firefox n all those "good" browsers work great in showing the icons.....but IE7 juzz blatantly refuses to show it.......

all others find the icons even if I place it in subfolders n give the appropriate path..........

Unknown author (2007-02-25 00:00:00): Got it to work fine. THANKS !!!

Unknown author (2007-02-27 00:00:00): How do you integrate this with Wordpress (the platform, not the .com)?

Unknown author (2007-02-27 00:00:00): Hi, Mine didn't work either!! I inserted the general code in Yahoo! GeoCities Servers. Please help in details!!

Unknown author (2007-03-11 00:00:00): i did what ever it say to do in this page but nothing is working.
i have IE7 & AVANT & the both don't show the favicon, what to do?
how i can see my favicon?

Unknown author (2007-03-12 00:00:00): I can not even see the favicons of Microsoft, Google, etc...
Can anybody suggest anything? Maybe in the security settings of ie?...

Curious (2007-03-13 00:00:00): I had have problem in displaying favicon on IE7 using all the tips mentioned online. Finally, I realise it works only by adding <body> .. </body> in my test page. I have a bad habit to ignore these tags.

Unknown author (2007-03-24 00:00:00): your own favIcon don´t appear in IE... that´s because I love FF!
It works perfectly!
Thanks!

Unknown author (2007-03-24 00:00:00): Sorry... that´s WHY i love FF...
My Englih is not so good!
In portuguese we have one word for because and why! :)

So --

your own favIcon don´t appear in IE... that´s why I love FF!
It works perfectly!
Thanks!

Unknown author (2007-03-25 00:00:00): favicon not showing in ie http://www.twelvebeads.com

Vlasta (2007-03-25 00:00:00): use the html code stated in this article and use a real .icon file, not renamed jpeg

Unknown author (2007-03-26 00:00:00): <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
its working with FF and IE7 automatically but not automatically working with IE6

bombo (2007-04-02 00:00:00): I put the link as stated above, I've tried everything but the icon is not showing at all, I'm using IE7 and dreamweaver. I don't know why its not working, I've also deleted temp files but still the same, I don't usually have problems seeing changes made to the website, Please advise if I've missed anything, thanx

Vlasta (2007-04-02 00:00:00): Hard to tell without the url of your site.

bombo (2007-04-02 00:00:00): sorry this thing sent the same message again... here's the url >> http://kasturirestaurant.com , I'm also trying to put it on my other site too... thanx for the response..

bombo (2007-04-02 00:00:00): I refreshed this page that's why it sent the same message back... very sorry for that... so ppl do not refresh page after sending comments... :P

bombo (2007-04-02 00:00:00): OK, I think I done it, the file although on my pc is 16 x 16 , for some reason it was showing as 48 x 48 on the server... I removed it all and tried again, seemed to have sorted the problem for now, I also think it only lets a genuine ico file work better than a transformed gif or jpeg

Unknown author (2007-04-04 00:00:00): Your favicon doesn't work in IE6.

MiG (2007-04-04 00:00:00): I tried to put favicon icon on one site but it doesn't work. I tried everything and I don't know where I'm wrong!?! The site url is http://www.inet.hr/~vjezic
I've placed icon file in the root folder.

Vlasta (2007-04-04 00:00:00): No, you icon is not in root folder, but actually in /~vjezic folder. I know that for you it seems to be a root folder, but for browsers, it is not, the root folder would be http://www.inet.hr/

Unknown author (2007-04-05 00:00:00): not working in firefox or ie7 on mine
www.inplainview.co.uk

Unknown author (2007-04-05 00:00:00): oops icon in wrong place, www.inplainview.co.uk working now

Unknown author (2007-04-10 00:00:00): not working in ie7, www.greatdesigns4u.us

Vlasta (2007-04-11 00:00:00): Your favicon is a renamed .gif. You need a real icon for IE.

Unknown author (2007-04-12 00:00:00): Urm....this is embarrassing !!!!!!!!!
I just commissioned a script so viewers can go to:-
http://www.favicon.co.uk and make a favicon.ico file from
any image that they have on their computer
The script is supposed to convert the image they supply
into a favicon.ico file
In early stage of design BUT http://www.favicon.co.uk/new.html
has the necessary code and the favicon.ico file is uploaded
but....guess what...I can't see it in my favourites
I tried all the advice offered by Googling "favicon don't show"
and from this page...to no avail
Any further advice appreciated.
Secondly can somebody try the script and let me know if it works
for them (after uploading and bookmarking to your own site)
You could mail me stay[at]canastahotel.com
Thanks in advance for any useful comments

Unknown author (2007-04-12 00:00:00): Problem fixed - it was actually a problem with the script and the way it formatted the favicon.ico image - now corrected.
If anybody wants to try it out please go to: http://www.favicon.co.uk
to design your own favicon.ico file

WillowsHeart (2007-05-06 00:00:00): Hi I'm hoping you can help as I'm rather perplexed! I created a favicon, uploaded it to my root folder, inserted the link into my main index page (as in example on this page) but the icon is only showing against my 'forum' page and not the others. I can't work out why it's showing on that one page when it's not even the page I inserted the link. I'm getting really frustrated now so any help will be greatly appreciated :-) Thanks

Vlasta (2007-05-06 00:00:00): It depends on the browser you are using. Sometimes it is enough to have favicon.ico in root folder for the icon to appear, sometimes the browser does not fetch the icon, because it already has the default one cached for that page.

WillowsHeart (2007-05-06 00:00:00): I cleared my cache and hey presto its working . . thanks for your help :-)

Unknown author (2007-05-10 00:00:00): i am still not able to view icon in address bar

Unknown author (2007-05-19 00:00:00): www.cariboopg.ca Works in FF not in IE7

mjarx (2007-06-08 00:00:00): I got it working but when i tried to change the design by overwriting the file & clearing the cache, the old design shows up.

mjarx (2007-06-16 00:00:00): Icon was being displayed, now it's not. Any tips?

Vlasta (2007-06-16 00:00:00): If you did not change anything then probably the cached icon on your computer was updated or dropped. Re-add it to your favorites if your are using IE6.

Unknown author (2007-06-26 00:00:00): Hi, www.eyeonbooks.com.au seems to work in FF but not in IE7? Can you please have a look?

Vlasta (2007-06-26 00:00:00): Works OK in my IE7, it will be just caching issue on your computer.

Shohreh (2007-07-10 00:00:00): I cannot get the fav icon to show up on Internet Explorer. Please check my site http://www.egoldfilledjewelry.com and tell me what I am doing wrong.

Vlasta (2007-07-10 00:00:00): Looks OK from here, probably just not updated cache on your computer. But you should remove the 32x32 pixel format from your favicon or at least make it similar to the 16x16 format.

Unknown author (2007-07-11 00:00:00): trying IE 7 at newreflectionscounseling.com and cannot get it to display. Have tried all suggestions. I can see rw-designer.com's favicon and other sites, but not mine. Any ideas?

Vlasta (2007-07-11 00:00:00): Uhm, I cannot find the <link rel="... tag in your page.

Chris L (2007-07-11 00:00:00): I have a frames based website does the <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"> go in the index.htm, thanks

Vlasta (2007-07-11 00:00:00): Yes, to the top level page, that defines the frames.

Chris L (2007-07-12 00:00:00): Many thanks for that, but it still does not want to work. I used one of your icons. It being the letter "W" Could you try it your end in case its the cache thing. Its www.woodleynet.co.uk. Cheers

Vlasta (2007-07-12 00:00:00): That page seems to redirect to geocities. That will be a problem for IE6, because you cannot put the icon to the root folder of a site.

Unknown author (2007-07-16 00:00:00): Hi I cannot see the fav icon that has been added to my website in ie .. it works fine in firefox... i have tried numerous times.. can you please help.

Unknown author (2007-07-16 00:00:00): woops would be good to give you the web address - http://www.zesthealthcare.com.au

Vlasta (2007-07-17 00:00:00): You should put the favicon to the root folder. Also, it is better if it si 16x16 pixels.

Unknown author (2007-07-18 00:00:00): worked for me using the free icon generator and a gif file - thanks for the instructions

Unknown author (2007-07-20 00:00:00): enjoying your site...i already had the "<link rel..." already in place with the addition of "type="image/x-icon". As soon as i copied my newly made icon out there it worked great in firefox. no luck in IE 6 or 7 yet despite deleting cached information and favorites. the site is www.navini.com

Vlasta (2007-07-20 00:00:00): ... no problems in my IE7

Unknown author (2007-07-20 00:00:00): just an interesting note, i changed the file name and code from favicon.ico to navini.ico and it worked immediately in IE7. something was evidently cached somewhere. in any case, if i learn anything fun i'll share it.

Unknown author (2007-07-24 00:00:00): Good call on the renaming the icon, that worked for me too and is a tip that's probably worth adding to the list above.

jfairbanks (2007-07-25 00:00:00): I tried adding a favicon to my website www.cornerstonesservices.com I made the 16X16 favicon and placed it in the root directory--and linked it appropriately (I think) but it still does not show in IE7 though it works fine in Firefox. Any suggestions?

Unknown author (2007-08-03 00:00:00): I can't get my favicon to display in either IE 6 or 7...works fine in Firefox though. ???

harry_the_icon (2007-08-09 00:00:00): Tried the renaming and it worked for me, after I'd spent ages cutting and pasting, assuming I was an idiot. Well done, one step closer to looking professional:

http://www.virtuallydone.co.uk

Dave (2007-08-10 00:00:00): Downloaded trial version but all the favicons I tried to create ended up 25k. Used the online version & it worked great (<2k). Found advice true: Comes up great in Mozilla; a struggle to get it to come up in IEv6 or v7.

Vlasta (2007-08-10 00:00:00): The online tool is good for favicons, the normal editor gives more freedom (you can for example create favicons with transparency and smooth edges). You should delete all but 16x16 images when using it for favicons.

Unknown author (2007-08-10 00:00:00): Tried all the suggestions above, but still can't get the icon appearing in IE 7. Works in Firefox and IE6.

zoli (2007-08-16 00:00:00): Hi, my favicon work in firefox, but not in IE i haven`t any idea why. I try to check in other computers, but... http://www.miribelkin.co.il/default.aspx

thanks

Vlasta (2007-08-16 00:00:00): works OK from here

Unknown author (2007-08-19 00:00:00): HI,

My favicon shows up on FireFox, but not in IE. I have tried every other alternative, but in vein. Please help. I have created the favicon 3 days ago.

valdazzar (2007-08-24 00:00:00): When I redirect with cjb.net My favicon is not shown. What should I do? when I enter to my normal address all are fine

loucy (2007-09-05 00:00:00): I cannot make it work in IE either. It works fine in FireFox. My web site is in Spanish (hope you don't mind too much): http://www.llaveros.org
Any more suggestions? Many thanks.

Vlasta (2007-09-05 00:00:00): Looks ok from here, clear your IE cache.

Unknown author (2007-09-05 00:00:00): GGallery

I have done all of the above..
My favicon will not show in IE7

Stjarna (2007-09-06 00:00:00): My favicon shows up in FireFox, but not in IE7. The url is www.stjarnadesign.se. I've tried the solutions above, including clearing the cashe, but no luck so far. Any ideas?

Unknown author (2007-09-06 00:00:00): I still can't get it to show up in IE7 or Netscape. http://ammloc.freehostia.com any more ideas?

Vlasta (2007-09-06 00:00:00): www.stjarnadesign.se is OK in my IE7.
ammloc.freehostia.com - renamed jpegs are not cool as favicons

katykristin (2007-09-13 00:00:00): Well, I can get the favicon to show up in Netscape and Opera, I haven't tried IE or Firefox. I can't get it to show up in Safari. Other people's web page favicons show up just fine in Safari, but not mine. : ( Any suggestions?

Vlasta (2007-09-13 00:00:00): I am sorry, I do not have Safari browser, but in general, try to be as compatible and conservative as possible, use 16x16 .ico file, default name favicon.ico.

andee (2007-09-14 00:00:00): I can't get the favicon to work. I use a Template for all of the pages, and this is where I've added the code. This is what I've entered:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.infectiousthreads.com/Images/favicon.ico">
Website is www.infectiousthreads.com
Please help.
Thanks:)

Vlasta (2007-09-14 00:00:00): You favicon url returns 404 Cannot be found...

Unknown author (2007-09-16 00:00:00): I tried making the favicon ico show one time and it worked. I tried it again and nothing can some help bigdre312002@yahoo.com

milongal (2007-09-23 00:00:00): Adding the link you suggest
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
actually STOPPED the favicon from appearing in Firefox and it did NOT make it appear in IE7. I also tried with absolute address, but that didn't change anything (except that the icon still disappeared in Firefox.) Any thoughts???

Vlasta (2007-09-23 00:00:00): Hm, yes, something else is wrong. Read the page and old comments carefully...

Unknown author (2007-10-12 00:00:00): andee,

place the favicon.ico in the same folder as your index.html. Then use <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">.

Unknown author (2007-10-24 00:00:00): NOTE: IE's ICON Handling flaw requiores that you add the "Type" info to the icon link to make it work.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

Paul Vilevac

Osaka Slim (2007-11-03 00:00:00): Last week I was tasked to "freshen up" my company's Web site. I thought this would be a great chance to learn how to put an
icon next to the address bar--something I'd wanted to do for my personal site for ages. So I checked out a few sites like this
one and soon had my company logo into a favicon file and the relevant code in the index file. I didn't want a lone graphic floating about in the root directory so put the .ico file in /graphics and added that path to the href. Worked beautifully in Opera 9.24 (my browser of choice) right off. Then I tried it in IE6. Didn't work. Firefox 1 (I keep it for testing new scripts!)--no problem. A search on "favicon in IE6" brought me here.
Now I can't be experimenting with my live company site so I switched to my personal one, which is hosted on GeoCities. I got the same result as above. First I tried moving the favicon file into the same directory as the index (and edited the href). Still no good for IE6. Then I tried everything suggested above--including the reboot! I found the source in Vlasta's site (I warmed my nose before sniffing
around!) and copied the link rel line from there. Still no good for IE6, and I agree with milongal, the "/" stopped it from working
in Opera and Firefox. The "type" (with "image/x-icon" or "image/vnd.microsoft.icon" recomended by Wikipedia) didn't help.
Then I noticed something weird in Opera and Firefox. Even though my icon shows up next to the address bar, when I bookmark my site, the icon appearing in Bookmarks is totally different to mine and nothing I recognise! Is this is because I'm on a hosted site--GeoCities are forcing an arbitrary icon of their choice on my bookmark? I checked a few other sites and all the ones that look the same next to the address bar and in bookmarks appear to have their own servers (or at least domain names) and use the simplest form of the "link" declaration.
I'm stuck and have given up for now. I've now spent more than 10 times the amount of time trying to get this to work in IE6 than it took to do in the first place! My boss and just about everyone else in my company are IE devotees so I guess no-one's going to see my work!
Sorry this has gone on too long--any helpful advice on my comments would be welcome!
Osaka Slim

Unknown author (2007-11-11 00:00:00): A solution I found was to add in the ref link the whole url address with a question mark at the end, that will tell the server to look for any change in the file everytime your page loads, that worked for me, good luck!!

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="www.website.com/favicon.ico?">

Unknown author (2007-11-17 00:00:00): I found that I had to rename my favicon to favicon1, change the code to say <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon1.ico">. That was the only way I could get it to work.

Unknown author (2007-11-17 00:00:00): Clearing the cache, deleting history, removing cookies, restarting IE7 - none of it worked.

What DID work was adding the question mark, as the UA post of 11/11/07 suggests. Works like a charm!

Unknown author (2007-11-28 00:00:00): thanks i have icon for my site

Unknown author (2007-11-28 00:00:00): frome ganesh
thanks i have icon for my site

chambers (2007-11-30 00:00:00): Hi,
I'm just beginning to develop a new website and added a favicon yesterday. It's working fine in Firefox and Safari, but wasn't working in IE7. Just now I checked to see if it worked without typing in the www in the beginning...and it *did*! Any reason why it still isn't coming up in IE7 when typing in the www first? Thanks.
http:www.chambersdsn.com

Vlasta (2007-11-30 00:00:00): ...cache...

t~ (2007-12-03 00:00:00): adding the ? at the end of the link worked perfectly! thanks!

Unknown author (2007-12-06 00:00:00): Hello! Good site!

Thank you!

Unknown author (2007-12-16 00:00:00): Many thanks for helping me with this! This worked for me perfectly:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon1.ico?">

sriPathi (2007-12-20 00:00:00): Hi, in my site fevicon.ico works fine in FF, but its not show in IE in any version. my site is www.sivajitv.com

i have checked with model icons in my site which is available in this site and i have developed my icon from, online icon created which is advised my this site.

Thanks in advance

Mred (2007-12-24 00:00:00): I have added
<link rel="ICON" href="/public_html/favicon1.ico?">
in the head area but the icon is still not coming up. I've cleared my temp internet files, I tried it with & without the ? mark

Vlasta (2007-12-24 00:00:00): ... the /public_html seems a bit strange - do you really have this folder in the url?

sriPathi (2007-12-26 00:00:00): Hi Vlasta,

Thanks for response, i stores my files which needs for this site(html, jsp, servlets,...), within the public_html folder in FTP. The server also detects the files from public_html.

Mred (2007-12-26 00:00:00): Yes that is where my site is stored on the web hosting server

Vlasta (2007-12-27 00:00:00): location on server is not important - url is.

sriPathi (2007-12-29 00:00:00): How do find the URL, is having public_html folder or not? Is this my work or server support team work? Sorry, i have poor knowledge, tell me briefly

Vlasta (2007-12-29 00:00:00): you can see the url of a page or image or whatever in the address bar of an internet browser

CD (2008-01-02 00:00:00): Here's the deal - I have done everything correctly (according to many webpages and my icon is still not showing up in IE. What the heck am I doing wrong? See Code below!

<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

sriPathi (2008-01-07 00:00:00): This is my URL http://www.sivajitv.com/firstPageLoad.do, whenever i call the index page it should pointed my servlet "firstPageLoad.do" which is available in WEB-INF and returned with index.jsp file. These all files are available in public_html. if public_html is available in my url means how do i remove it?

Vlasta (2008-01-07 00:00:00): you favicon.ico file is just a renamed .png. It is mentioned on this page several times, that you should use a real .ico.

sriPathi (2008-01-08 00:00:00): Hi Vlasta, Its works fine now, thanks for your great help

Unknown author (2008-01-13 00:00:00): I tried all things you mentioned for Internet Explorer. But favicon is not showing. I am using Internet Explorer version 7. Kindly guide me

Unknown author (2008-01-15 00:00:00): Hey thanks alot its cool :)

Unknown author (2008-01-18 00:00:00): I followed all of the steps and it still does not work

Unknown author (2008-01-23 00:00:00): I tried to get IE 7 to show favicon whole afternoon and it did not work. Finally, decided to use Mozilla firefox and it works immediately.

Unknown author (2008-01-27 00:00:00): I've found out that this code # type="image/x-icon" # is making IE7 sometimes not to show favicon.
I have recently changed my favicon, and the result was IE7 not showing it at all. After i've played some time with the problem
I just have removed this line of code in my link tag, and it shows icon immediately

Unknown author (2008-02-03 00:00:00): the icon won't work. dunno why
URL: http://www.freewebs.com/racinfreek

Vlasta (2008-02-03 00:00:00): Works OK in FF and IE7, in IE6 you may have a problem, because you cannot put your favicon in the root folder on a shared web.

Unknown author (2008-02-06 00:00:00): nm got my icon to work. thx

baker (2008-02-08 00:00:00): I've added a favicon to my webpage...then redesigned the icon and reposted to the site; however, the new icon does not appear...just the old one despite deleting and uploading the new design to the site...any help? Thanks

Vlasta (2008-02-08 00:00:00): Clear browser cache and wait.

Unknown author (2008-02-12 00:00:00): Still not working :(

Unknown author (2008-02-16 00:00:00): attempting to replace an outdated favicon. was successful with firefox, no luck with IE7. emptied cash, removed out of favorites, and added back, inside header is
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
etc etc.
www.yarn-store.com . . . now what?

Vlasta (2008-02-16 00:00:00): Now, make it real .ico, not just renamed .gif.

Unknown author (2008-02-16 00:00:00): My favicon shows up in IE7 but not with Mozilla. Why is this so?

Unknown author (2008-02-18 00:00:00): do you have to have a web address rather than testing from a local root folder as works ok with firefox and opera but not with ie7

Unknown author (2008-02-21 00:00:00): From PCLIVE:
I view my webpage at two locations. At home my favicon always shows up. At work and another location, the favicon will not show.
Yesterday my favicon was suddenly showing at work when I added a bit of code to the end of the suggested code:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

Today, I'm back to my favicon not showing again. IE7 Windows XP.
Any ideas?

Thanks.

Vlasta (2008-02-22 00:00:00): ...the same as before...

Unknown author (2008-02-23 00:00:00): Any ideas on why our favicon on www.southerncrossbluecruising.com doesn't work after having done everything stated above? Thanks

Unknown author (2008-02-29 00:00:00): I did everything above but my favicon still not showing on my site.

Unknown author (2008-03-03 00:00:00): If it doesen't work, restart IE!

Unknown author (2008-03-03 00:00:00): shows for me in both ff and ie

:)

Unknown author (2008-03-04 00:00:00): could u plz put the line of code? i can't make it show in IE

Elvira (2008-03-06 00:00:00): hallo - I too cannot get my favicon to show in IE7. It works fine in Firefox on each page of my site. I have tried to alter the code on this page:
http://uk.geocities.com/poel.festival@btopenworld.com/pastevents.html
to see if I can show it. I've managed to squash the yahoo icon, but all that shows now is the generic IE icon. Any help gratefull received!

Unknown author (2008-03-07 00:00:00): any one help me how to display favicon in IE Browser

Unknown author (2008-03-12 00:00:00): How do I get my Favicon to override the Yahoo One that shows up instead

www.geocities.com/chihuahusa_rus

Unknown author (2008-03-15 00:00:00): I think the code works but its for SHORTCUTS.
I, too want it to show up on my web page, but it will not.

natural (2008-03-29 00:00:00): i can see my avatar but others cannot.

http://www.valeriemorrison.net/blog
or
http://www.valeriemorrison.net

Vlasta (2008-03-30 00:00:00): ...well follow the instructions in this article.

Jim (2008-04-07 00:00:00): I followed the directions to place a favicon on my home page at www.navigatestorage.com Foxfire shows the favicon but i.e. does not. I tried the steps you said to try to correct this but to no avail. Can you help me?

Vlasta (2008-04-07 00:00:00): Looks OK from here in IE7. But you may want to change the mime type of the favicon from your current text/plain to image/x-icon.

Unknown author (2008-04-09 00:00:00): i followed your specific notes but i am not able to view in internet explorer. My sites are:
http://www.kanpurmart.com
http://www.bhartiyaminfo.com

Unknown author (2008-04-09 00:00:00): reply me urgent what should i do?

Vlasta (2008-04-09 00:00:00): Followed the guide? Hmmm... 1) your favicon is a renamed .bmp. 2) it is better to put them in the root folder.

Unknown author (2008-04-15 00:00:00): Hi,
The favicon for my website www.edgemi.com shows on Winsows XP IE but not on Windows Vista IE, why? Thanks.
Eugenio

Unknown author (2008-04-22 00:00:00): Hi There

I have tried everything to make my fav icon come up on IE 6. But no luck. I have provided a hard coded path to the icon file in my Header control, added as bookmark etc after clearing previous bookmarks, Temp files etc but no luck. I noticed that when I browse to my icon file through IE and look at its properties - it shows Type: "Not Available". Is this causing the issue? Why is that? When I go to the icon file through file structure on the server and go properties - it shows it as a 16x16 .ico file. Please help. Thanks. Jatin

Unknown author (2008-04-22 00:00:00): My site experttitsolutions.biz also has the same problem of not dispalying Icon. Please suggest.

TPTech

Vlasta (2008-04-22 00:00:00): experttitsolutions.biz seems to be offline. As for the IE6 problem, make sure, the favicon.ico is really an .ico file, not just renamed .bmp, it is in the root folder and called exactly favicon.ico. You may aslo check it mime type if it is not something weird. With IE6, it is often a cache issue, try a clean computer, add your page to favorites and click it.

Unknown author (2008-04-22 00:00:00): I use IE and have tried everything to get it to show.
Any other ideas?

Vlasta (2008-04-23 00:00:00): Hard to tell. If you have tried everything, there is not much left ;-).

Him (2008-04-23 00:00:00): i'm not able to display favicon, as i followed Browser specefic notes for IE.

Unknown author (2008-04-23 00:00:00): Firefox shows it for almost anything.. but not for IE. Is there any size constraint for favicon.ico file.

Unknown author (2008-04-23 00:00:00): hello
Internet Explorer not supports favicons
? do it
pls

Unknown author (2008-05-10 00:00:00): I just added a questionmark after the favicon.ico.
It did work (ages ago when I found the hint in 2005) but stopped working somewhere and also in FF3.0.

Unknown author (2008-05-22 00:00:00): Hi, I tried all sorts of things like deleting the cache, cookies, restarting the machine...but couldnt see favicon on IE6..I can see it on Firefox. Any help?

Unknown author (2008-05-27 00:00:00): my web page is http://whd.pcriot.com i have done all you sited above. but fevicon showing in mozella not in ie please help. my id is muntadev2in@yahoo.co.in

Unknown author (2008-05-29 00:00:00): Mozilla shows perfectly Explorer Not at all. I have 3 hours into it. I used http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/validator/ and it says it is all working. When I looked on my Temporary internet files my favicon was downloaded at one time because I can saw it and I have been erasing my temp files every hour to make sure it is not full. Also I have set explorer to redownload every time it visits a page. When I deleted my favicon from my temp files and went back to the temp files 30 minutes later it did not show it in my temp folder.

I'm overly puzzled

www.Aqualified.com

Unknown author (2008-05-29 00:00:00): Poster from the 27th I see your Icon on explorer it looks great http://whd.priot.com

Unknown author (2008-06-07 00:00:00): no mozilla nao aparece o icone, porque????????????????????????

Unknown author (2008-06-11 00:00:00): You said: "Make sure, the icon file is called favicon.ico and it is placed in the root folder of your web server."

I tried and tried and tried and couldn't get it to work. I moved the file to my /images folder and made the path correction in the code and it worked perfectly.

So in my case, it could NOT be in the root folder. Hope that helps.

Unknown author (2008-06-11 00:00:00): IE 7 supports favicons, and all you need to do is make sure that your image is 16 x 16 pixels; save as favicon.ico, and upload to server. Hope that helps!

Unknown author (2008-06-13 00:00:00): I did everytthing you mentioned and it still does not display

lds1991 (2008-06-19 00:00:00): I did everything mentioned above and it still does not display

Unknown author (2008-06-26 00:00:00): The icon will not appear on the internet explorer page no matter what!

Unknown author (2008-06-27 00:00:00): Its working good in Mozilla.....

But not in IE....

cne1955 (2008-06-30 00:00:00): I copied and pasted the line <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"> and the icon worked with firefox but not IE. I removed the forward slash in front of favicon and it works in both firefox and IE.

Unknown author (2008-07-01 00:00:00): wouldn't show in IE 7 until I moved it to images
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico">

cne1955 (2008-07-01 00:00:00): the forward slash makes a difference. If the webpage was in the images directory and favicon was in the root, it should still work if it is addressed properly. href="../favicon.ico". If your statement said href="/images/favicon.ico", it would not work for the same reason href="/favicon.ico" does not work.

Unknown author (2008-07-04 00:00:00): if the .icon file is in the same folder just paste
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

ferrett (2008-07-05 00:00:00): I have tried every which way but still only works in Firefox. How come I can see yours and others favicon in IE but not my own?

Unknown author (2008-07-05 00:00:00): a what

Unknown author (2008-07-09 00:00:00): https://labs.mozilla.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=3683

Unknown author (2008-07-15 00:00:00): I, too tried all the above and my favicon will not appear. There are others showing from different sites, I can see it on a ddifferent computer, just not mine. I kept adding it and moving it around trying to have it appear to no avail. Then was very surprised to see it show when I was on a different PC

Unknown author (2008-07-24 00:00:00): do you know how this would work on an glassfish application server

craig.nanango (2008-08-03 00:00:00): I tried doing all of the suggestions in here, however I still can't get IE7 to diplay the icon in the address bar.

Do you actually need a published Web Site? I'm just trying to test it on my PC locally (XP SP2) and have simply setup a folder the sample html (index.html) and a favicon.ico file. I also have a sub-solder /images with the favicon in it, but neither work.

Any more suggestions?

craig.nanango (2008-08-03 00:00:00): PS: It does work in FireFox!!

vicdor (2008-09-06 00:00:00): Hello, my favicon shows in Firefox, but will not show in IE7. I deleted the temp files, and still not showing. Please help!! Thank you.

The Coming Wave (2008-09-06 00:00:00): This is probably primitive ( and more likely redundant), but I put the following three lines my header tags...

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="../favicon.ico">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

and now it works in IE as well as Firefox.

tss4info (2008-09-07 00:00:00): This is driving me mad! My IE6 Favorites (yes I have tried deleting and re-adding) ALL show with the standard IE icon. The only thing I haven't tried is rebooting (XP Home)

I'm sure it usen't to be like this and have slight suspicions of the beta Chrome (which seems to have affected some Firefox settings).

Icons work fine on Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

Unknown author (2008-09-17 00:00:00): I am trying to add a favicon to a website that is on a webserver with an html folder that holds all of the webpages. The pages are created in Microsoft Frontbage. I have saved my favicon to the html folder. Is there something else I need to do since I am not actually writing html code for my website?

Unknown author (2008-09-20 00:00:00): I have been trying to add a favicon to IE6 for longer than I care to mention. I have read NUMEROUS articles and have taken everyone's advice. I also followed the instructions on MSDN and have not yet found anything telling me how to get this to work. I cannot force people to add my page to their favorites just to see my icon. Yes, I cleared my cache, favorites, offline pages, closed IE and restarted and refreshed. I have played with MULTIPLE versions of the <LINK ...> statement and it still doesn't work. If anyone has successfully gotten this to work, without putting the full URL in the link statement (I need it dynamic so I can develop on LOCALHOST before moving to a server), I would like to hear how you did it, and I would like to see it to prove you did it (I'm a skeptic and need proof). Everything I've read says it should be working, yet it's not. No one has offered the proof by giving me a URL to look at (with the favicon in the address line) with the exact code used and instructions to get it to work. If you are just going to give me your advice, please don't respond to this, I've heard it all. I'm looking for a solution (with proof) that works all the time.

Unknown author (2008-09-23 00:00:00): I cant display it in IE

Unknown author (2008-10-01 00:00:00): @ The Coming Wave
Tried this, and yet it still does not work in IE7 or IE6 (could care less about 6 though)

It makes little or no sense. What annoys me even more so is that I made another website and the favicon appears flawlessly there, yet it only gives me trouble with the new site I am working on.

Perhaps it takes IE longer to figure out that it needs to display a favicon? IE takes forever to render plain HTML and run Javascript, so...

azp (2008-10-03 00:00:00): I have a subfolder on my root which holds wordpress.
I want the wordpress pages to display a different favicon than the main root.
is this possible?

main favicon: http://www.redwinebuzz.com/favicon.ico

subfolder favicon: http://www.redwinebuzz.com/winesooth/favicon.ico

j920 (2008-10-05 00:00:00): how can i add my icon to my yahoo geocities using pagewizard

Unknown author (2008-11-05 00:00:00): in firefox the icon is display in the navigation box, and in the tab, but i can't get it to display in the bookmark. i've deleted cache and then deleted the bookmark and readded, and it still doesn't work.

Unknown author (2008-11-07 00:00:00): this might not be w3c copliant, but i've seen a number of sites including halifax using rel="icon" as well as rel="shortcut icon". all works fine in ff, also works in ie if you bookmark it.

Unknown author (2008-11-08 00:00:00): My problem was that I created a 16x16 favicon.gif image and then just renamed it to favicon.ico - it worked perfectly in Mozilla, but tried everything in IE (to no avail), until I read an article on it and decided to properly convert the image with a tool - it worked like a charm!!!

Unknown author (2008-11-14 00:00:00): Still no hope does not appear inspite I did all what is mentioned I have other sites it do work on it, http://sparelives.org

Vlasta (2008-11-14 00:00:00): Not really - first, you have double <head> tags in your page and second, you favicon is a renamed .png.

Unknown author (2008-11-14 00:00:00): I struggled with this as well, until I got a plug-in for Photoshop and saved it as an .ico file from there. The plugin can be found at http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/ - I have Photoshop CS3 and it worked just fine.

Unknown author (2008-12-06 00:00:00): I am agree

Unknown author (2009-01-11 20:30:25): I have tried most troubleshooting procedures however I cant get favicon to show up on my website. The funny thing is it shows up when I type my ipaddress (instead of my domain name) on the address bar. Pls help me if anyone knows how to solve this problem.

thanks

Unknown author (2009-01-12 15:36:08): It's still not working for me. However, I think there may be a problem with my .ico file. It shows as a broken link in IE when I pull it up by itself.

Unknown author (2009-01-16 10:05:49): I hav done all the above thing for ie but still unsuccessful.Same thing in firefox is working fine. I doubt if any set up in hosting server has to be done.

Unknown author (2009-01-16 23:10:13): I tried locally but it didn't worked just tin Firefox and Opera. After I have put it up it worked in IE as well.

The problems in IE are a lot about browser cache refresh. IE has made it very complicated and obscure.

Unknown author (2009-01-21 23:54:31): For some reason IE does not like favicons that are 16 x 16. if you make it 32 x 32 then and upload it to the root directory then it will display properly, no need for the rel=icon code either... i struggled with this for many hours... just through trial and error this managed to work. :)

Unknown author (2009-01-29 16:41:33): Thanx for online icon tool. Goog work :)

Unknown author (2009-01-31 22:08:14): I downloaded the plug-in from telegraphics (thanx), but it still does not show up in FF, even after clearing the cache. But I can see it in Opera.
www.benardetearchive.org

Unknown author (2009-02-04 12:24:24): Hey you guys :)

Just wanted to say, read the instructions, followed them, and it worked like a charm! thanks a lot.

Even though I found this post through google, giving it a stumble thumb-up!

Unknown author (2009-02-05 15:51:07): Delete your Browser Temp Files and your History files then refresh!

Unknown author (2009-02-06 19:17:15): Works excellent.. Thanks
Sue
http://www.suesfree4u.com

Unknown author (2009-02-06 19:53:48): I tried renaming favicon.ico to someothername.ico, and then IE picks it up..

Unknown author (2009-02-06 19:55:07): I tried renaming favicon.ico to someothername.ico, and then IE picks it up.. For some reason it wasnt getting picked up otherwise..

<html>
<head>
<title>This is the title of my page!</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/someothername.ico">
</head>
<body>
My page is not empty. See?
</body>
</html>

Vlasta (2009-02-07 10:07:05): That is the caching effect in action. Clearing your cache would work as well. I would still recommend to at least keep the favicon.ico file on the server.

Jayne (2009-02-23 00:44:38): My favicon shows up on all of my pages except one: the index.html page. The favicon is listed in my root directory as favcon.ico. It shows just fine on both IE and FireFox - except for the index page.

I have a paid site and use Cpanel's html editor. My favicon was created with a favicon program, is 16x16 and is named favicon.ico

I've cleared the bookamark, cache, history, and cookies a dozen times and it still won't show up on the index page - but shows up fine on the other four pages. :/

I have two other websites and those favicons show up fine on all the pages (including the index pages) using the same process and coding. What could the problem on this one page be??????? Why does it not show on this one sites index.html page?

The code is am using:

<head>
<title>...</title>
<meta name="..." />
<meta name="keywords" content="..." />
<meta name="Author" content="..." />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico" />
</head>

Any suggestions to get this darn thing to work on this one page would be appreciated.
Jayne

Unknown author (2009-03-03 10:05:24): Thanks ..

Unknown author (2009-03-10 01:22:44): Thanks for the favicon lesson..
Working great for me..
Peace,
Sue
http://www.suesfree4u.com

Unknown author (2009-03-26 12:25:36): not able to create icon from a .png image. Even if I make the background transparent,it is setting black as the background, due to which the entire icon becomes black;(

Unknown author (2009-03-26 21:08:58): Dogshit! Does not work!

Unknown author (2009-03-28 09:45:25): For me this worked but only while the *.ico file was on the internet, it did not find it on my hard drive, only on the web.

Unknown author (2009-04-05 20:02:15): Sorry, but I don't feel like registering.

Please check out the (draft) standard for "favicon" at the W3C site ("How to Add a Favicon to your Site"). The current HTML standard and XHTML standard are somewhat different from what things have been. Also note that since the standard itself is not actually a standard yet (it's in draft), things may change again (but I doubt the "link" tag will change much, if at all from what you see below), but it makes my description of this below a little complicated.

HTML:
<head profile="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="http://example.com/myicon.png">

XHTML:
<head profile="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/somewhere/myicon.png"/>

Note that the W3C states that the "profile" attribute and value as shown in the "head" tag should be added as shown for the purpose of properly defining the meaning "icon" value of the "rel" attribute. However, it is my opinion (professionally, I'm a computer programmer and a website designer/coder) that at this time the use of the "profile" attribute is completely superfluous. (I say this, because if you look at the profile that the W3C gives as an example, it seems to provide nothing at all in terms of giving information to a browser that the browser would use to know what to do. The one I'm seeing as I write this seems purely for human reading.)

In the "link" tags above, the "rel" attribute is simply "icon", not "shortcut icon". (In fact, the format of the value "shortcut icon" is bad - contrary to current standards - because it has a space in it, and in current standard the space is a delimiter, so "shortcut icon" would be referring to two different link types, one called "shortcut" and another one called "icon".)

The "type" and "href" attribute values are examples, but note that only the following three values are allowed values for "type" (corresponding to the MIME types of the allowed image formats of the icon file):

type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon"
type="image/gif"
type="image/png"

Note that previously "image/x-icon" was used, because it was an unregistered MIME type - unregistered, meaning that Microsoft had never registered that image file format type officially with the organization, IANA, where all MIME types are officially established. But that particular image format is now registered, so from now on you should use "image/vnd.microsoft.icon" for that type. (Note also that a lot of web server software does not have the new MIME type for ICO files configured, so they will ignore what you've specified anyway, and send it as "text/html" or "text/plain" - which is what they do for every type you specify for anything that the server is not configured to recognize as a valid MIME type.)

This means that you can now make the icon in either the up-until-now typical ICO format, or you can also make it either a GIF file or a PNG file. But remember that whatever format you choose to put the image file in, you must still comply with using a geometry of 16x16 or 32x32 pixels, and either an 8-bit or 24-bit color depth. (Obviously, if you make a GIF, then you can't have 24-bit color; however, a GIF file allows for animation if you want to use it.)

The reason I'm writing about this is because I just recently had occasion to want to use the "favicon" with a web site, which I've never done before, and googling around and digging up relevant information I've been studying this. (I also just updated the Wikipedia article on the subject, which is how I ended up here in fact from the link to this page that is at the bottom of the Wikipedia article.)

- Todd S. Greene
(Charlotte, Michigan)

Unknown author (2009-04-13 04:52:12): I used this code:
<link rel="favorites icon" href="favicon.ico">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico">
<link rel="favorites icon" href="favicon.gif">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.gif">
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.gif">

on internet explorer 7 and it didn't show niether the static nor the animated!!! http://joosle.recoding.net/

Unknown author (2009-04-26 13:10:33): Have you checked the files favicon.ico or favicon.gif really exist in the same folder of the page?

Try to use the slash to tell the browser that the favicon is in the root folder like this

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">

There is also a page which check and download the favicon of others

http://www.getfavicon.org

You can see from there how your favicon is displayed to the world.

Unknown author (2009-04-26 16:04:29): IE really needs to get with the program...favicons are nice but IE 7 will not show mine for me ..but i can see others...

Unknown author (2009-04-28 05:35:55): I'm from joosle.recoding.net I preffered to use only the static favicon... i discovered it was my internet the only one that didn't showed it :( but I fixed it

IconDrive.com (2009-05-15 00:02:07): Actually, any favicon is a good favicon, since too many sites do not have one at all. Once you have a favicon, you can use your favicon to advertise your site at IconDrive.com (http://www.icondrive.com).

Redorbit (2009-05-23 21:30:52): Thanks for the information below. However, my favicon wouldn't show up under my subdomains. My main domain is http://www.jomra.com, the subdomain I tried it on are http://iphone.jomra.com.
So I copied favicon.ico to the main folder of the subdomain and linked it in the head as:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
= Didn't show up

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://iphone.jomra.com/favicon.ico">
= Didn't show up

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="//wwwjomra.com/iphone/favicon.ico">
= WORKED on IE7 and Firefox!!

Ensure you clear you cache when trying.

Good luck,
Redouane

Unknown author (2009-05-26 16:18:41): Thanks man, this stuff works. I tried it and tested it on opera and firefox and it worked well. thanks.maybe those who complained it didn't work didn't do it well.

Prince C. CIWA

Unknown author (2009-06-05 20:01:48): Todd S Greene... Thank you. This worked perfectly.

Unknown author (2009-06-23 10:34:25): Yep Worked a treat although for some reason I only added my file as
favicon.gif ( Animated ) then linked to it
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.gif">
And it played the animated one in Firefox and just played a static
one in IE ... Cleared everything and tried on three different pc's .
Go figure ( IE 7 and firefox 2.2 to 3.011 )

Unknown author (2009-08-20 22:20:06): How do I add a custom favicon to a favorite in Chrome? I used to be able to assign my own favicons to links in IE, but I don't see that in Chrome...

lubber123 (2009-09-04 20:17:54): My favicon at www.lfmi.org still doesn't show up on IE7 - I followed all your instructions. Anything I should know about 7?

Unknown author (2009-09-10 14:54:05): exclent

Unknown author (2009-09-15 20:52:06): in IE7 u should ad the attribute type="image/x-icon" in the link tag

e.g.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

Unknown author (2009-09-25 22:28:49): I needed to add my favicon.ico to my ...root\images\ folder (not root server folder as specified) in order to work.

Unknown author (2009-09-28 08:06:12): Yes, I had it working in Firefox with it in root folder but wouldn't work in IE7 so put in root/images folder and works on both Firefox and IE7 now. Thanks.

Unknown author (2009-09-30 14:10:32): Hmm i cant make it work in ex! :(

Unknown author (2009-10-16 22:00:53): Can't get it to work in IE - http://schwartzgroup.net/
Please Help!!!!

Unknown author (2009-10-23 18:06:54): hi,

my favicon is not working, http://www.moneymakingsecretsforyou.com/favicon.ico\

it shows there, but why not normally?

Unknown author (2009-10-28 14:51:01): Can i add favicon from body? Coz i am using wap builder, my wap was http://indonesia.phn.me

Unknown author (2009-11-02 21:30:03): I can't get it work - just have a blank where the icon should be.

steveaubu (2009-11-03 01:31:31): I'm using IE8 and can't get my favicon to show on the page tab. It shows on the favorite bar and in my favorites list, but not on the tab. I have the following entries in my <head> section. The favicon is located in my root and images directories. Any suggestions?

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" href="/favicon.ico">
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico"/>
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.stjohnboscoco-op.org/favicon.ico">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />

Unknown author (2009-11-05 18:13:19): worked perfectly, cant believe its just a one liner. gud work

Unknown author (2009-11-19 21:00:41): To the person that responded to my question above through the form in the schwartzgroup.net's website: It is an .ico file and the root folder is http://www. I'm a web developer, not the owner of the website. I've tried all the tricks in the book, but to no avail. Got any other tips? I appreciate your help, but next time please reply through the forum and not through my client's website. Thanks!

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