I'm just transferring all my files over from xampp's htdocs to my server and now I just need to add a favicon.
I have the icon saved as 'favicon1.ico' and it is a proper icon size 16x16, but I cant get it to work.
This is the code I have for it:
<html>
<title>Server Test</title>
<head>
<h1> Hello World </h1>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="O:\Intranet\favicon1.ico"/>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
That is the correct location of the icon in the href so I dont see why this shouldn't work.
I've never added a favicon to a site before so that is where my main problem of not knowing exactly what it should look like lies.
Your Favicon path uses a windows style File path as pointed out in the comments.
Ensure the following
favicon1.ico file is present in the package that you are transferring onto the server.
Ensure that the file is accessible over http (try using a browser to navigate to it). The path should be something like http://server:port/app-uri/favicon1.ico
After that as suggested in one of the comments use a relative path such as ./favicon1.ico in the HTML source.
Also I suggest reading up on the concept of favicon http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon
Code below should work. Try this.
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="http://yoursite.com/favicon1.ico">
Notice that href points to the address of your icon depending where you put the icon.
said page located here:
http://lolisrael.co.il/betatest/index.php
favicon is located here:
http://lolisrael.co.il/betatest/favicon.ico?v=3
I've cleared the history, and reloaded the page and it still shows no favicon
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://lolisrael.co.il/betatest/favicon.ico?v=3" />
I think the <script> tag containing facebook code is manipulating DOM. And if you inspect with developer tools in Chrome, you can see that in the final DOM tree, your <link rel="shortcut icon" is put in <body>.
Try moving the facebook code into <body>. According to Facebook's documentation:
You should insert it directly after the opening <body> tag on each page you want to load it:
That <link> tag goes in the <head> not the <body>. It should work once you move it.
According to Favicon Checker, your ICO is corrupted. Lots of other problems detected too.
Errors are as follow:
favicon.ico seems corrupted or not in ICO format.
Some picture(s) are missing in favicon.ico
For me when trying with localhost it is working. Are you sure that you have valid image in the .ico format. If no please regenerate the ico file.
Try this code sir. This code is working for me.
<link rel="icon" href="http://lolisrael.co.il/betatest/favicon.ico?v=3" type="image/x-icon">
My web page is not actually live on the internet. I have it saved on my computer and I am simply opening the HTML file from my computer- the navigation of the website is all on my computer. Anyway, before I put my site live on the internet, I want to test out all my code, including my favicon. My favicon is not showing up, though. Here is the code I found to be most recommended so far:
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
Try "shortcut icon" instead of "icon":
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
And note that the path to your favicon is relative to the html file. If both are in the same directory, the path is just "favicon.ico", no slash.
favicon.ico must be in your root folder, same place where is your index.html, and of course you must have a localhost server
<link href="favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon">
The link element is correct as such (though the type attribute is redundant, and all that it could achieve is to prevent a browser from using the icon), but the URL /favicon.ico is relative and generally does not work when the HTML document is local. A locally accessed HTML document has a file: URL, and such URLs are by definition system-dependent, and in practice they also depend on the browser, too. For example, in a typical Windows system, in you placed favicon.ico directly in the root of the C: disk (requiring normally admin privileges for that), Chrome would find it, Firefox wouldn’t, as they use different file: URLs when you open local files.
So in local testing, you should normally use relative URLs that are relative to the current document, e.g. as in href=favicon.ico (when favicon.ico is in the same folder as the referring HTML file) or as in href=../images/favicon.ico (when favicon.ico is in an images folder that is a sibling of the folder where the referring HTML file lies).
If you need to test locally with URLs that relative to the server root, you should download and install a local HTTP server, such as XAMPP.
I am making a HTML page and one of the things I wanted was a favicon appearing next to the title.
I'm using Google Chrome, I see favicons working on other websites, but the favicon on my website won't show up. The site is in a folder on my desktop named site.
The favicon.ico file is 16x16, and I used an online generator to make it.
This is the code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Since you have a leading / in your href, you are referencing a file that will be in the root-folder. In case you have your page in a folder on your computer, not serving it from a local webserver, the leading / will tell the browser to look in the root folder of your filesystem. So the browser expect the file to be at C:/favicon.ico or similar, which is probably not what you've expected.
If you have the favicon.ico in the same folder as the web page, you could just remove the leading slash, and the icon should be visible.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
Update:
As a debug option, your could try to add a tag that you know works. I borrowed this snippet from the StackOverflow source. Try replacing your link tag with this and see if you get the SO logo as your favicon.
<link rel="shortcut icon"
href="http://cdn.sstatic.net/stackoverflow/img/favicon.ico">
Update 2:
It appears that there is a bug reported on Chromium where the favicon isn't displayed if the file is loaded locally, without being served through a webserver.
I've found that (at Chrome 56, OSX) the favicon state appears to be cached for the browser lifetime, so if a favicon isn't being loaded, it won't be until after restarting Chrome. It appears that it doesn't show up in the "application" tab in dev tools and isn't cleared by a hard reload or 'Clear site data'.
A common issue where the favicon will not show up when expected is cache, if your .htaccess for example reads:
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 month"
Then simply add a random value to your favicon reference:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://example.com/favicon.ico?r=31241" type="image/x-icon" />
Works every time for me even with heavy caching.
Another reason for Chrome not displaying the favicon is that it still remembers a time when the site in question did not have a favicon or the favicon was incorrectly configured.
You're going to want to completely wipe the favicon cache:
Exit all running Chrome processes.
Delete the Favicons file in your user data folder. For example:
C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Favicons
This can not be resolved by clearing the browser cache, as it does not affect the Favicons container.
Also note that, contrary to what you might read online, requests to favicon resources are not shown in the Network panel of the DevTools. Under very rare circumstances, one such request may show up there, but it is highly unlikely and the DevTools will not help you solve your favicon woes.
1) Clear your chache. http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95582 And test another browser, lets say safari. How did you import the favicon?
2) How you should add it:
Normal favicon:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
PNG/GIF favicon:
<link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="favicon.gif" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="favicon.png" />
3) Another thing could be the problem that chrome can't display favicons, if it's local (not uploaded to a webserver).
4) Try to rename it from favicon.{whatever} to {yourfaviconname}.{whatever} but I would suggest you to still have the normal favicon. This has solved my issue on IE.
5) Found another solution for this which works great! I simply added my favicon as Base64 Encoded Image directly inside the tag like this:
<link 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rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" />
Used this page here for this: http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp
For me the problem was that there was a div above it (which of course shouldn't have been in the head, but it happens). Firefox didn't mind, but Chrome did.
It doesn't look like Chrome allows you to display the favicon in the address bar...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon#Use_of_favicon
I've also seen it done like this. Don't know if it would make a difference or not.
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
This is a bug in Chrome and Chrome only. To trigger the bug:
Set in your HTML <head> block: <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="favicon.ico">
Load the page with one favicon.ico image, then replace the favicon.ico file with a different one. You will not be able to get the new one to display, even if you use Classic Cache Killer or use incognito mode (security breach, anyone?). You can use another browser to confirm.
To solve the bug: Do a forced reload, by pressing shift + F5.
This is such a massive bug in Chrome, that it's already been reported to their developers, who have suggested using this method as solving the their bugs. (Source: GoogleSupport.)
This trick works: add this script in header or masterPage for Example
var link = document.createElement('link');
link.type = 'image/x-icon';
link.rel = 'shortcut icon';
link.href = '/favicon.png';
and will be cached. It's not optimal, but it works.
The path must be via the URI (full).
Like: http://example.com/favicon.png
so in your case:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head profile="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile">
<title></title>
<link rel="shortcut icon"
type="image/png"
href=" http://example.com/favicon.png" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Ref:
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon
Note if you have so many tabs open that Google Chrome is only showing the favicons then Google Chrome won't show the favicon for the selected tab, so if you keep reloading the tab with your page loaded in order to see your new favicon you will only see the text of your page's title.
You will need to reload your page, and then select a different tab in order to see your favicon.
I moved ico file to root folder and link it. It worked for me.
Also, in chrome, I have to wait 30 mins to get cache cleared and new changes to take affect.
These are the locations where browsers store the Temporary data in Linux:
Note: you can see hidden files in File Manager using Ctrl + H
for Terminal use the command ls -la
Chromium
~/.cache/chromium/[profile]/Cache/
Google Chrome
~/.cache/google-chrome/[profile]/Cache/
Also, Chromium and Google Chrome store some additional cache at
~/.config/chromium/[profile]/Application Cache/Cache/
and
~/.config/google-chrome/[profile]/Application Cache/Cache/
and generally here:
/tmp/
so to apply new FAVICON or try to show it up is to clean them
make sure u are inside each of these directories use the command:
rm -rf *
There's one more possibility that no-one else seems to have mentioned: You may have exported your .ico file with settings that Chrome does not support.
Another possibility is your .ico lacks a 16px image, and so may display nothing, even though you have other resolutions.
I would suggest trying different settings on your .ico exporter, or trying another one altogether.
One potential problem is that the server is not replying with a correct file type when the browser fetches the favicon,
using Base64 is a good workaround
This issue was driving me nuts! The solution is quite easy actually, just add the following to the header tag:
<link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
For example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
Your html is completely wrong for starters, there should not be a div within your head section, nor after your body section. I suggest you look into correct html first before starting to work with favicons etc.
See the small logo/icon in the tab when you open any website in any browser?:
How can I put such logo/icon on my wordpress blog?
This is called a favicon. You link to it in the head section of your HTML.
You can read more about it here: http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon
And view a list of Wordpress plugins that do the work for you here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/favicon
Two ways,
the first is use this plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shockingly-simple-favicon/
Or, if you really want to learn how it works. Open your theme folder (normally under wp-content -> themes -> your theme name) and then normally in the header.php file there is everythign that happens in the head of your pages.
Any where in the <head></head> place the following code...
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico">
Where /favicon, is the link to your favicon.ico.
To easily make a favicon, use the following link.
http://www.favicon.co.uk/
Hope this helps you learn how to do it and what the actual plugin does for you :)
Use plungin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shockingly-simple-favicon/
You just need to put the image into a file named favicon.ico in your website's root directory (like www.stackoverflow.com/favicon.ico). Browsers request this file when a user visits your site and will show it in the tab or bookmarks. You can find more info on wikipedia or even use http://www.favicon.cc/ to help you design the icon.
There are two ways.
In your template header.php file, you have to add the favicon code: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
or, you just put the favicon.ico into your www root. Apache has a configuration setting which will load this as default.