I'm fairly new to html and I've noticed that the favicon that I want to display on my site is not showing up on Safari but showing up on Google Chrome. I was wondering if I could get any help on this?
I know this is a pretty basic question, but I have tried all the basic stuff like emptying my Safari's browser cache as well as the favicon cache on my mac. Here is the syntax I used to link the png. I enclosed this under the <head> </head> section of my code.
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="../MP1/images/icon.png"/> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" type="image/png" href="../MP1/images/icon.png">
I've tried both standard favicon sizes 16x16 and 32x32 px but neither show up on my Safari browser. Thank you in advanced for the help!
Safari uses "apple-touch-icon" and not just "icon". Also, you will have to specify the icon for all Apple devices if you want it to show up in all of them.
Refer this article : https://css-tricks.com/favicon-quiz/
I'm trying to make my favicon works on IE11.
After reading many tutorials, I found the solution below, adding
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="./assets/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
Issue is the favicon is not appearing on IE11. Weird thing is the line below makes the favicon working on Firefox and Chrome as Firefox and Chrome can see properly where is the icon.
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="./assets/favicon_bnp.png">
However, when I change the first line to the line below, hosting the favicon on a server, the favicon is appearing on IE11, Firefox and Chrome.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.iconj.com/ico/f/q/fqp4dvw03t.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
What I would like is to have the href use a relative path.
Except the URL, I've tried to change favicons, change paths, to no avail.
Any hints are welcomed.
There're some solutions about this issue:
Make sure the image a real ico file and put it in the root folder of your web server. Renaming a bitmap is not a real ico. I use https://favicon.io/ to generator favicon and it can work in iE.
Make sure the <link> tag of the ico is between the <head> and use absolute path instead of relative path.
Delete your temporary Internet files and clear cache of IE. If the folder with temporary files has reached its maximum, the favicon may not be used.
For more information, you could refer to this thread and this thread and try the workarounds in them.
I have done a lot of digging, but I can't seem to get a favicon working for IE11. I can get one working in Chrome and Firefox though.
Here is the head of my file:
<head>
<title>Home</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<script src="../jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="../levelOneImports.js"></script>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="../Iconleak-Cerulean-Science-chemistry.ico" type="image/x-icon">
</head>
Here are the different approaches I've tried:
I have a favicon (ico and png) that I created, but after I couldn't get it to work,
I just tried downloading ones to test off of the internet (here is
one).
I read in another post that IE11 should support png
favicons, so I tried using a png file rather than an ico file.
I read in another post that the image should not be in a subfolder, so I changed the location and put it in the root.
I read that the image needed to 16x16, so I tried creating a ico file that had those dimensions. I also tried downloading a png file with those dimensions.
I tried clearing the IE cache. I also tried clearing the cache and restarting the browser.
The latest code solution is the one I tried above (from this post here).
I also tried this: <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="../logo.png"> using the solution from the post here.
I am not sure what I could be doing wrong. Any suggestions? If you could provide an example of some code where it works in IE too, that would be great.
Don't know if this helps, but I'm not too concerned with anything prior to IE11.
Even if you cleared the cache, IE11 might still use the cached version. This is an unfortunate, well known-behavior.
A non-exhaustive checklist:
In IE11, open the developer console and look for errors. You might typically discover a 404 error while accessing the icon.
Version the icon by adding a query string to the URL. For example, in your HTML code, change the icon path to ../Iconleak-Cerulean-Science-chemistry.ico?v=2. This should force IE11 to reload the icon.
Test your site with the favicon checker. Full disclosure: I'm the author of this service.
You can change it with JavaScript. It may not be the best answer, but it should work. Be sure to check the link below and their example. Let me know how this works for you:
How to force ie11 to request a new favicon?
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.
I'm able to show the icon without problem on Firefox, but on Internet Explorer 7, the icon cannot be shown. Can someone please paste the code and try on your Internet Explorer 7? What missing did i do?
<html>
<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon"
href="http://yourhtmlsource.com/favicon.ico"/>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Try cleaning the cache, favIcons gets cached until "the end of eternity".
I normally, to be sure, upload my icon to http://www.favicon.cc/ and re-download it from there. Works every time!
Saving a JPEG of GIF file as .ico might work in some browsers. But .ico is actually a different file format.
Try this online favicon generator: http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/
Edit: Just downloaded your icon. It has the right file format. But I could also see your icon with IE7 (on Vista).
Try this:
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico" />