I have a page that displays the incorrect favicon when I view its source.
In the following image, you can see in the first tab (which is viewing the page) using the correct favicon - favicon-tenaya.ico.
However, when you go to view the page's source via Ctrl + U, it seems to display the default favicon - favico.ico, which is in the website's root folder:
Is there a way to get around this? We don't want the favicon changing when they view the source. How does the view source page in Chrome decide which favicon to use?
Viewing the source of a page is browser-dependent. There nothing you can do to force it to display a specific icon. For example, Firefox doesn't display any icon at all for a "View source" tab.
However, you can influence browsers to achieve this. For Chrome and your particular web site, replace the existing favicon.ico at the root of your web site with your favicon. This is what Chrome displays and yours is the black and white icon you don't want. Even better: rename favicon-tenaya.ico to favicon.ico (thus replacing the existing favicon.ico) and change the HTML accordingly.
As an aside, you don't need two declarations. Just keep the shortcut icon one, although the other one should do just as well.
Since Chrome does not parse the html it uses default file "/images/favicon.ico" to show as favicon in view-source. If it doesnt find it it look into different other locations too. for example if you use wordpress it uses http://[domain]/wp-content/themes/[theme]/images/favicon.ico
In Website, you can mention the favicon like below
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon-tenaya.ico"/>
and its working fine.
Where as in view source of chrome, they automattically find the favicon on below path
https://www.tenayalodge.com/favicon.ico
Favicon to be fetched from added favicon.ico after your website.
A very simple way:
put your favicon.ico file on the root of the website.
That should be accessed like: http://www.[domain].com/favicon.ico
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The way I use to display the favicon on my website is to add a favicon.ico in the root folder.
It is working alright on the tabs of the desktop and also the tabs on Chrome in phone itself, but when it's in the quick links, I only see the first letter of my website name. so if the domain is example.com I see E instead of the favicon:
Will I have to add meta tag for favicon to make it show here, or it has nothing to do with it?
favicon.ico is used for low resolution icons, such as the one that appears in the tab. However, bookmark and add-to-home-screen images must be high resolution icons.
In order to have such icons for Android Chrome:
Preferably, provide a Web App Manifest, along with a 192x192 icon.
If you don't want to create such file, you can provide a 180x180 Apple Touch icon. It is simpler and more platforms support it (eg. iOS Safari).
As an alternative, you can use online favicon generators, such as RealFaviconGenerator, to create all these files for you. Full disclosure: I'm the author of this service.
This is a webpage image of the favicon.ico i want to to remove
I have deleted the image and the link ( )from the source and the icon keep showing. I even tried replacing it another icon but still getting the same result.
Favicons are cached, if you'd like to replace it, I'd suggest to add a version i.e. favicon.ico?v=RyyR6aw6zk this will force the browser to load the new icon
I work out it when I prevent request to the favicon.
you can filter the request to the favicon so that you can give your own favicon .
Maybe a stupid question, but for the life of me I can't find a reference to the favicon "ico" file on this website:
http://www.fitnessutah.com/
They obviously have one because it displays in the browser tab/window. I've tried Chrome developer tools, Network tab which shows all images on a page -- but no favicon there either. Where is it hiding?
It does seem to be being pulled in differently, but it is typically always in the default location - which this one is as well.
http://www.fitnessutah.com/favicon.ico
There are two ways to specify the favicon for a website:
1) Give a link to the favicon
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/somepath/favicon.png" />
2) Put it in a prefefined URL, this is relative to the server root. So in this case will be http://www.fitnessutah.com/favicon.ico
This website seems to be using the second method so you will find the favicon in that link.
You do not need to add a link element with your favicon image for it to appear on your website.
Quote:
A second method for specifying a favicon relies on using a predefined URI to identify the image: "/favicon", which is relative to the server root.
Source:
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon
Further to Keir's and Carlos' answers - to spell it out - most browsers are programmed to also look for a favicon here:
http://yourwebsitename.com/favicon.ico
If the favicon image is named/stored as above, there is no need to mention it in the HTML code.
Therefore, if you are looking at a website and you can't find any reference to their favicon in the HTML source, just type the website's base URL in the browser address bar followed by /favicon.ico:
http://example.com/favicon.ico
Real-life example - try to find the favicon in the source code:
http://www.fuelly.com/favicon.ico
Use Chrome Dev Tools Network tab.
Filter by favicon
reload the page with Shift+F5
You will get the icon regardless it was loaded with link or from default location
I noticed that Future Friendly's source code doesn't contain any code for their favicon. Yet, there is a blue star as their favicon in my browser's tab. Is this witchcraft?
you can just put a favicon.ico file in the root level of the website. in your sample http://futurefriend.ly/favicon.ico
You don't need code to reveal a favicon. Simply add the image to your site root folder and all newer browser (IE 7 +?) find it and show it automatically.
i have to change the internet explorer icon in the title with customized image not the one which appears on the address bar.
You can set your favicon by putting it in the root of your site or you can set it int he html like so
<link rel="icon" href="http://www.quotes.co.uk/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
If your using photoshop this is a good plugin to create your flavicon:
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/
You need to use a favicon.ico.
The site icon file can be located anywhere in the site directory tree.
Because site icons are used both by Internet Explorer and Windows, only the .ICO file format is supported. If you change your site icon during development, you might need to clear the browser cache or rename the file to cause Internet Explorer to refresh its copy of the site icon.