Problems displaying favicon in IE7

Differences between IE7 and FF

[dwighty]

I have come across a bit of a strange issue.

On one of the sites I am working on the favicon works fine in FF but i can not for the life of me get it to display in IE7!

I have included a favicon from another site and that displays.

The icon i have is 16px by 16px and is included as follows:

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

Anyone got any ideas or come across this thenselves?

[phranque]

try this:

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

[dwighty]

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

I have tried this and still the same. If i replace the favicon.ico with another image from another site i visit and that displays.

Is this just strange?

[Robin_reala]

How have you made your .ico?

[dwighty]

It was a quick job using ... Paint!

Did not think that would cause a problem tho...

[phranque]

i didn't think paint supported ico types.
naming it favicon.ico isn't enough...

[Robin_reala]

If you're happy with the command line then I'd recommend looking for an app called png2ico. Otherwise there are various favicon websites around that'll help you make one. You can't just rename a gif or jpg to .ico though, as they're different file formats.

[dwighty]

Thanks guys.

Will do that.

[afrojojo]

[tools.dynamicdrive.com...]

[jd76]

ok...used the online .ico generator and cleared my cache and restarted IE7.

Now websites that did have the favicon.ico file displayed aren't, and I still don't have my site displaying the favicon.ico...

I am correct in that if I have the file in the root directory, then it will be displayed even if I don't have the markup in the html file code?

[edited by: encyclo at 4:06 pm (utc) on Jan. 5, 2007]
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