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Like most sites, I have a favicon.ico graphic file so that when people bookmark the page, a small icon appears.
I've been doing this for years, and all works fine in IE 6 and below, as well as all Firefox editions.
Yet, none of my favicons are showing up in the new IE 7. Some other sites are, including webmasterworld, but none of my own are. Other sites I frequent also seem to have this problem too.
Any ideas on why IE 7 is treating favicons differently - and what can be done to fix things on my end?
Thanks.
Jim
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/favicon.ico">
No, I don't have a link to it. I've just always uploaded the graphic file into whatever directory I wanted it, and all seemed to work fine til now.
Does IE 7 require every page on a site to have a link to it in order for the favicon to work?
Jim
Hi,
For the past several years, all I did was just upload a favicon.ico file to whatever folder I had and whenever that favicon.ico was called (such as through bookmarking) then the icon would appear in the favorites list. I started using favicon's simply to get rid of all the darn 404 errors I was getting everytime someone tried to bookmark a page (thus calling the favicon file) only to not have the file there.
In any event, the tip by Birdman does indeed work for IE 7. Suspect it works for all other browsers too. But...prior to IE 7, you didn't need to do this. And Firefox still picks up the Favicon.ico automatically.
Wlauzon:
I have never seen a favicon work in any version of IE up until IE7, where they now all work.jimh009:
For the past several years, all I did was just upload a favicon.ico file to whatever folder I had and whenever that favicon.ico was called (such as through bookmarking) then the icon would appear in the favorites list.
"Bookmarking" - I think that is the key here. I don't see the favicon in IE6 either, unless I add the site to my favorites list, in which case the favicon appears!
Actually, I have since read, that if you click and drag the (plain old IE) icon that appears in the address bar - very slightly - and let go, then the favicon appears. This seems to work (in IE6 and IE5)!
jimh009:
I started using favicon's simply to get rid of all the darn 404 errors I was getting everytime someone tried to bookmark a page (thus calling the favicon file) only to not have the file there.
You were getting 404 errors when you tried to bookmark a page without a favicon?! And adding a favicon.ico solved this?!?!
Yes, that removed the 404 errors. When someone tried to bookmark a page, IE would call for the favicon.ico. It wasn't there - hence a 404 error in the logs. You didn't have a problem with the page displaying - it's just a log error thing. And it was filling up my logs in a huge way.
It wasn't there - hence a 404 error in the logs. You didn't have a problem with the page displaying - it's just a log error thing.
Ah OK, gotcha.
