Any idea why this isn't working?
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="Favicon.png"/>
It's just not showing up. I used the exact same setup on a local practice website, and it worked fine (it was using the same picture as well). Are you supposed to just put the picture onto your website server and reference it like I did? Or is there something I don't know about?
Also, how exactly do you get a favicon to show up on IE? Yes, I've researched this, and all the methods I've found just don't work...
You can just put the icon [favicon.ico] in the root directory of your website. That's what I did.
Oh yeah, to answer the question, it could be because it is a png ;)
There is a PNG to ICO file converter online, so that's what I used to get around the IE issue. www.convertico.com
*If you test this locally, it might not show up. My local pages don't show a favicon.
Yes, you should upload the file to your web server. The reason why this works locally for you is because it is in the same file as your html document. There are two things you do to get your favicon working:
Upload the file to the same folder as in your html document. If you have a web host, such as altervista.org, you could upload your favicon to the website.
Upload your favicon to an image uploading website. You could use google drive for all it's worth, anything website that can publicly display your photos is fine. If you upload this to a server, you can find the link to your image and reference that favicon in your link tag.
Hopefully this helps!
I faced to the same problem.After checking my whole code for hours , finally I figured out the problem.I used base tag , it caused the favicon icon to do not be displayed.When I removed , the problem was solved.So, I recommend you to remove base tag if you have used in your website.
I hope it could help!
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i have been using Neocities to create my website, I've ran into a problem where no matter what i do, my Favicon won't work. It just shows no favicon. i tried it with some other random Favicon from another site and it doesn't work. If anyone can point me in the right direction, that will be helpful.
Tried changing the code, copying code from other sites, following a tutorial, and switching from .ico to .png and still nothing
I am working on a site using the one of the twitter bootstrap templates and my JavaScript console is complaining that it is missing:
favicon.ico
ie-emulation-modes-warning.js
I downloaded all of the Bootstrap files from the Bootstrap website. What are these files and do I need them?
If so, where can I get them?
Edit: Thanks guys! Looked into Favicons and didn't realize that is what they are! So simple! lol
By default, browsers look for favicons in your site's root directory. You can use favicon generators online, which (by standard) create 16x16 pixel png-like objects that are used as your site's icon on a browser tab, etc. Just make one of those and drop it in your root directory.
If that doesn't work, you may want to use your inspector (assuming you're using chrome), right click > inspect element > console (or network), and look there to see where your template is looking for the favicon. Just drop the generated .ico file in that folder.
For the JS file, you may be able to find it online, download it, use the inspector again, and drop it wherever your browser is looking for it. This is good for performance—missing files slow roundtrip requests down.
It's something browsers look for by default. Nothing to do with Bootstrap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 created favicon.ico file and declared it in my HTML head tag:
<link type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico" rel="icon" />
<link type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" />
IE 8 and Opera handle it great but FireFox does not even try to load it (as I see from my Fiddler debug proxy). I've tried many different type (image/ico etc.) and href params but no luck.
What did I miss?
Like most things in the browser, favicons (or lack thereof) are common candidates for caching.
Try clearing your browser cache.
In Mozilla Firefox, the keyboard shortcut to "Reload (override cache)" is
Ctrl + F5 OR
Ctrl + Shift + R
Firefox has separate cache for favicon and this does not work properly. The favicon is not updated easily in firefox. This is a small issue but troubles many of us for long time.
The solution is to clear the favicon cache so that the favicon is update. There are many solutions you can find if you go through the internet or stackoverflow. Most of the solution imvolves deleteing the favicon cache manually or using some plugins. Some saying deleting the file from temp internet files. But there is one really simple and easy way to fix the problem.
Type in www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico (or www.yoursite.com/apple-touch-icon.png, etc.)
CTRL + F5 or CTRL + R
This will immediately update the favicon.
This solution was originally posted by 'alex' at this link:
How do I force a favicon refresh
That's strange, because I just copy/pasted your code to a blank document, opened with firefox and some random image I renamed to favicon.ico loaded up as the favicon.
Maybe try this?
http://help.godaddy.com/article/4145
My problem was that I had another favicon.ico in a web root directory.
If You have a favicon in template directory "/template/favicon.ico" and another one in "/favicon.ico" firefox will use the favicon from root direcory even though you've used a link for favicon in template folder. Solution is delete the favicon in root directory.
My current version of firefox is 58.0b6 (Quantum).
So just had an issue with favicons not showing in Firefox v70.0.1.
Now this will probably only be an issue for a very few people and most likely only if you have modified the about:config settings in FF
This issue for me was the setting privacy.resistfingerprinting was set to true on some sites this will block favicons.
The other issue I noticed and what lead me to find out what was causing the issue was using dropzone.js on a site I was creating the uploaded images had a blank preview. The previews are base64 encoded and were being blocked by this.
Like I said most likely wont be an issue for most but wanted to post this somewhere so it may help others that may be facing a similar issue as I did.
See more here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting
And Here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1452391
I am not much of a programmer but I had a similar problem and here is the simple thing that finally worked for me...
I admin several simple websites but Firefox refused to load the favicon of one in particular site. I looked online, tried everything I was able to understand. Nothing worked. The code was exactly the same (copied in fact) from the other websites whose icons worked well.
Eventually it dawned on me that maybe Firefox did not like the path I used to get there. This site was a forwarded URL being hosted on my own domain. (i.e. personal domain is myplace.ca and the favicon that would not load was part of registered URL something.com which was actually located at myplace.ca/PutItHere/) If I used the registered URL (something.com) no favicon. If I use the real path in the browser, suddenly favicon! All I had to do was bookmark the absolute path rather than the registered domain!
I also found, that if you reference the full URL path, you may need to reference the URL WITH www. in it, otherwise it may not load.
Here it's in 2017. Firefox didn't pick up my favicon called "favicon-32x32.png", while Chrome was showing. I changed the file name to "favicon.png", AND refreshed as folks showed above, it worked great. I'm using:
Firefox version 55.0
Chrome version 60.0
I am presently following this guide: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ThemeCreationGuide
to create a theme for Google Chrome.
Everything seems to work fine, the only problem i have is applying a background image to the browser. The "theme_ntp_background" that supposed to point and load the background-image seems not to be working :(
Any ideas on what may be wrong? it is definitely not the file path, i ensured this was correct.
Thanks!
Chrome can only load png images in themes, so make sure that the image you're trying to use is a png file.
It would also help if you posted the code found in the manifest file for this theme.