IE favicon is not show, firefox is ok.

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there is a piece of code that it show a favicon. it doesn't work on IE, but firefox and Opera is ok.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <link rel = "shortcut icon" href = "favicon.ico" type = "image/x-icon" />
        <link rel = "icon" href = "favicon.ico" type = "image/x-icon" />
        <title>favicon test</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>IE favicon is not show, firefox is ok</p>
    </body>
</html>

who can tell me why? I have testing it on IE 6/7/8/9/10,none is ok.

Posted 14-May-13 19:53pm

daizhan

Updated 14-May-13 19:54pm

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Code-Hunt · Answer 1 · 2013-05-14T19:59:00

Solution 1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/122067/favicon-not-working-in-ie[^]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8918384/favicon-not-showing-up-in-address-bar-in-ie9-yet-is-displayed-there-in-all-oth[^]

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie9-windows_7/almost-no-favicons-showing-in-ie9/9d962198-0d63-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5[^]

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/9f81f991-d69b-4234-b019-ead0a97c9ff2[^]

check this links..it may help you...

Posted 14-May-13 19:59pm

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daizhan 15-May-13 2:26am

do you have any another suggestion? it still does not working in IE.

[no name] 15-May-13 2:44am

it's not showing or u r getting any error..??

daizhan 15-May-13 3:34am

no, no error , no show.

[no name] 15-May-13 3:36am

u checked the image path properly..??

daizhan 15-May-13 3:52am

i put the html file and favicon.ico in a folder. if the image path property is wrong, the favicon will not show in firefox.

[no name] 15-May-13 5:21am

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link rel = "Shortcut Icon" href = "favicon (1).ico" />

<title>favicon test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>IE favicon is not show, firefox is ok</p>
</body>
</html>

this code is working for me..try to create your favicon from any favicon creator website and try