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[zxk105]

Why does favicon.ico show up in Netscape but not in IE?

This is the code that I am using:

<link href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" rel="shortcut icon" />

What should be the size of my favicon? I have it at 16x16, but when you create a shortcut on your desktop the icon gets distorted b/c it is bigger than 16x16. Should I make it 48x48? Will it still show up? Thanks for the suggestions......

[Cook]

Hi zxk105,

This should help.

[thesitewizard.com...]

Cheers,
Cook

[photon]

IE is notorious for "losing" favicons. Sometimes if you clear your cache and come back to the page it will reload. Sometimes if you grab the generic icon and "wiggle" it, it will pull up the right one. But mostly it forgets them after a while.

An .ico file can contain multiple icons. So you can create multiple sizes, and the operating system will choose the appropriate one to display for the favicon, desktop icon, etc.

If you haven't yet, take a look at [favicon.com...] Everything you'd ever want to know about them is there.