The default favicon.ico that gets included in a WebMatrix product is added in _SiteLayout.cshtml like so:
<link href="~/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" />
That icon does not fit my app, so I converted a jpg I created at http://www.coolutils.com/Online/Image-Converter/.
I renamed favicon.ico to YourMotherWearsCombatBoots.ico and renamed the image I had
converted to favicon.ico (after adding it to my project).
I thought that my new .ico file would get used in the browser's tab for the page/site. But, alas, no! The old .ico file is making like the Raven of Poe's poem - it simply will nevermore go away. What's up with that?
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Note: If trying this out using firefox or IE as the browser doesn't work (currently testing with Chrome), I am going to bountify this question for 50 points ASAP. If I get an answer prior to that, I will award the bounty post-answer.
Clear the cache :)
As long as the path to the file (including the filename) is correct, and it is a .ico file, it should render.
That having been said, try not using ~ maybe, since it is only an html tag and it uses / to find the root of the site.
I've done this many many times, and never had any issue with any ico in any browser.
Honestly the cache is the only thing I can think of.
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I'm expanding my answer to show an example. This is a scenario I have just recently set up and it worked perfect first time (as it does for me every time).
The HTML:
<link href="/Images/Site_Icon/Scribe.ico" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" />
The Directory Structure:
The Result:
Since I've been using icons for my sites, I have not noticed that there need be anything else. As far as I know this is all that should be involved with getting this to work as expected.
If this still does not help, do the following:
Re-verify the path, check it one folder at a time.
Delete the old Microsoft favicon entirely, unless you plan on using it for something else (which I doubt).
Open the ico file you are trying to render. Is it really the picture you expect it to be?
Manually (Ctrl+Shift+Del) clear the cache (especially for Chrome) and try again (if you're gonna debug in Chrome, you might as well get used to doing this regularly [okay, actually it doesn't matter what browser you use, you'll always have to do this when something doesn't render the way you expect, so that you'll know it's not a caching issue]).
Make sure you're looking at the right site, when it's open in your browser (i.e., make sure that you're not editing your site locally and pulling a non-updated version from your server or something).
Other than that, I can't think of anything else it could be.
Most likely an issue with the browser rather than anything to do with WebMatrix or code.
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Something is wrong. When I open my site using localhost then everything is fine. What can be wrong here?
And when I click assets/css/style.css I got error like this:
When ew check Network tab, and click on style.css sotmething weird happens because html file is previewed:
As myself and Quentin mentioned in the comments, it is generally good practice (and the intended effect for most situations) to use /assets/path/to/resource instead of the relative path assets/path/to/resource.
Unless it is intended to leave out that slash (which it isn't in your case, as you said in the comments), you'll need to prefix all the asset links with slashes.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/style.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/scregal.css">
etc.
There is only one possible causes of the problem I know although your question is not so clear.
1.》 Make sure the assets folder is in the same location as your html file.
》Prefix all your href link with a dot. Check the image to see
I faced a problem like this when I wanted to push one of my electron apps to production mode. The dot makes it easy for the packager to load the whole folder.
I am writing my first web application using Flask and SQLAlchemy.
My CSS file is currently saved under a static folder and the styling is correctly applied to my webpage
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ url_for('static', filename='main.css') }}">
However when I try to update it (for example changing the fontweight from bold to normal) it will not show.
I could even remove all the content of my css file and my website will still look the same (as if the content was never deleted).
The only way I found to make updates was to create a new file "main2.css" and update the url link from the HTML file which is very inconvenient.
Has anyone found a better way?
It sounds like your CSS file is cached. You can test this by changing 'main.css' to 'main.css?something'. Some people append a date string or other to their CSS file so it busts cache periodically.
It's possible you're getting the cached version of your CSS. After making updates to your CSS file, have you tried doing a hard reload? How you do this depends on the browser, but for Safari this can be done by holding Shift and clicking the Reload button.
I had the same issues and I realised I couldn’t keep asking my users to do a hard reload. Constantly renaming my static folder (where all CSS/JS files were kept) seemed error-prone from a production devops perspective. Then I found this addon called flask-static-digest, which was adding md5 hashes to the file names as well as gzipping them. It is a good fix for my production server.
https://github.com/nickjj/flask-static-digest
Another solution I found was really helpful during testing is to do a full reload in your browser (in my case Google Chrome) by shift-clicking the reload button.
I change a CSS file, run collectstatic but nothing happens - the app keeps the previous styling, even though that CSS no longer exists anywhere in my files. I got frustrated and gave up yesterday, and found that this morning it had updated, but the initial problem persists. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it just an issue with pythonanywhere or might there be a problem in my code?
Method 1 Each time you edit your CSS file you need to either hard reset it with Shift + F5
Method 2 You have the possibility to edit the file in the index page (or wherever you load in the file in. After the .css you need to enter a query like ?q=...
So like this:
OLD FILE: <link href="/css/TestFile.css" rel="stylesheet">
After editing it to refresh the cache: <link href="/css/TestFile.css?v=1" rel="stylesheet"> v standing for version, you can use any character.
Method 3 To disable caching you'll have to look into your web.config file. There might be something similar like this:
<location path="css">
<system.webServer>
<staticContent>
<clientCache cacheControlMode="UseMaxAge" cacheControlCustom="public" cacheControlMaxAge="7.00:00:00" />
</staticContent>
</system.webServer>
Remove that and it stops caching. You might also have to look into the IIS settings but I don't know about that, read more here
Edit: Added the method text. If you have a live website with customers I would recommend using Method 2. Having caching enabled increases your website speed as they do not need to load the css, javascript, media etc etc files every time they visit your page. Only once in a while.
I've got <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="myimage.png" />, why doesn't it work? It gives me the blank/new document icon in the favicon.
Does it have to be an icon.
Does it have to be from a URL?
It worked previously but it's stopped now, I might have changed something, but I don't think so, I didn't update anything, add any gadgets or anything, it just stopped working.
I have tried a few things such as using URL or an .ico instead of PNG, and I've looked online too, but I can't figure it out. It could be because I'm hosting the site file in a google drive sync but I doubt it somehow.
Thanks. In case anybody needed it, I've got the code on paste bin: http://pastebin.com/Wzc9zLea << HTML and CSS
You need to meet the specifications => PNG/GIF/ICO, 8- or 24-bit colors, and size 16x16 or 32x32, which your image doesn't meet at all. By the way, why do you wrap your code with <a> tags?
P.S. - You might want to remove 'shortcut.'
To answer your questions, whether it has to be an icon–I think you mean whether it has to be a .ico or a .png file, and that depends on the browser. As a general rule, most of the time it can be a png, no problem. For much more detail, check out this SO answer.
As for whether it has to be "from a URL", that's tough to give a yes/no answer to because it's a bad question. If you mean, does it have to be from an external URL accessed via the HTTP protocol, then no, it doesn't. It can be a file path and that works just fine. Anything that requires a URL will generally take a file path no problem.
Side notes:
As I mentioned in my comment, there's no need to wrap your code in <a> tags, and it may be screwing with your code.
Some people are saying you don't have a closing <head> tag, but I see it just fine, so not sure what that's all about.
Your favicon should be saved as a .ico filetype. Place the NAME.ico in the root of wherever your website is. You can go to this site http://www.favicon.cc/ and have your .png made into a favicon. Then just put it into the root and you're set.
It varies depending on the browser and these days the device (tablet, smartphone, etc). But at a minimum, your favicon link should be constructed as follows:
<link rel="icon"
type="image/png"
href="http://example.com/myicon.png">
Currently, your file reference is relative to URI, meaning that if you have pages deeper than one level below your document root, your code is going to break. To illustrate, here's an example:
If you visit http://example.com, the browser will look for your favicon file at http://example.com/myicon.png.
If you visit http://example.com/mycategory/myarticle.html, the browser will look for your favicon file at http://example.com/mycategory/myicon.png, which won't be found.
See the problem? So either use an absolute path to your favicon file:
<link rel="icon"
type="image/png"
href="http://example.com/myicon.png">
or make the path relative to your document root:
<link rel="icon"
type="image/png"
href="/myicon.png">
Looking at the HTML you posted, another obvious problem that stands out is poorly structured (invalid) HTML. Remove the first four lines in your HTML document:
1. HTML
2. <a>
3. <!DOCTYPE html>
4.
The first line is just text and will confuse browsers trying to determine the document type of the page being loaded. The second line is a valid HTML element but it needs to exist within parent
<html>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>
elements. The third line isn't a valid declaration and looks like a stab in the dark, and the fourth is a blank line. If you don't actually know what HTML standard you're coding to, it's probably best to simply omit the DOCTYPE declaration and simply let the browser guess the standard to use because this WILL affect how your HTML is interpreted (and rendered). I don't know if it's universally true, but I think most browsers will fall back to the loosest HTML standard in the absence of a defined DOCTYPE.
One final thought. If you're new to HTML and/or don't have any sort of formal education/training, take some time to go through online tutorials. http://www.w3schools.com is a basic resource that can help you better understand the language.
When opening a file from your hard drive into your browser, where is the document root? To illustrate, given the following HTML code, if the page is opened from the local machine (file:///) then where should the css file be for the browser to find it?
<link href="/temp/test.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
You can, but probably don't want to, set the document root on a per-file basis in the head of your file:
<base href="my-root">
It depends on what browser you use, but Internet Explorer, for example, would take you to the root directory of your harddrive (eg. C:/), while browsers such as Firefox does nothing.
On a Mac, the document root is what you see in the window that appears after you double click on the main hard drive icon on your desktop. The temp folder needs to be in there for a browser to find the CSS file as you have it written in your code.
Actually, you could also write the code like this:
<link href="file:///temp/test.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
Eric, the document root is the folder in which your file is, wherever it may be.
As far as local, static html goes, unless you specify it, most browsers will take the location of the html file you are viewing as the root. So any css put in there can just be referenced by it's name only.
The lazy way to get the correct reference for your css file is to open it in your browser. Then just grab the url that you see there - something like: file:///blah/test.css and copy that into your stylesheet link on your html: <link href="file:///blah/test.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
Either that or you can just take the url for the html file and amend it to refer to the stylesheet.
Then your local page should load fine with the local stylesheet.
If you're interested in setting the document root, you might look at getting a web server installed on your machine, or, if you already have one (like Apache or IIS), storing your project-in-development in the web root of that server (htdocs in Apache, not entirely sure in IIS). If you'd rather leave your files where they are, you can set up virtual hosts and even map them to addresses that you can type into your browser (for example, I have a local.mrwarshaw.com address that resolves to the web root of my personal site's development folder).
If you're on Windows and don't want to mess around with setting up a server on your own, you could get a package like XAMPP or WAMPP, though bear in mind that those carry the extra weight of PHP and MySQL with them. Still, if you've got the space, they're a pretty easy drop-in development environment for your machine.