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Posted by Michael Morton
Michael Morton
4,902 Points

Favicon Code

Hi everyone,

I've created a favicon and uploaded it to my root directory. But for some reason it still isn't showing up in the URL bar.

Here's the code I'm using. Is it correct? FYI - I'm viewing my site in Safari.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" >

8 Answers

Jeffrey Kam
Jeffrey Kam
1,734 Points

Try visiting the path of the favicon in your browser. I found that this sometimes works.

So if your favicon is at http://mysite.com/favicon.ico, just visit that url in your browser and it sometimes will force the browser to load the favicon.

Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer
Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer

There's ton's of websites and blog posts just dedicated to this. The biggest thing I have found, is that most browsers cache the favicon. Try opening your website in another web browser and see if it comes up. If it does, then just try clearing your cache from your main browser. Let me know how it goes.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Your code works on IE, so you should definately keep it, just add in <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico"> for other browsers.

source: http://www.jonathantneal.com/blog/understand-the-favicon/

Michael Morton
Michael Morton
4,902 Points
Michael Morton
Michael Morton
4,902 Points

Thanks for the response gentlemen.

James - I'm also using IE9 but I'm still not seeing the favicon. Are you seeing it on your machine?

I also checked Firefox. It shows up in Firefox but not in Chrome, IE or Safari.

Could it be a caching issue?

Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer
Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer

Is the favicon in your root directory?

Michael Morton
Michael Morton
4,902 Points
Michael Morton
Michael Morton
4,902 Points

Ernest,

Yes the favicon is in my directory.

Michael Morton
Michael Morton
4,902 Points
Michael Morton
Michael Morton
4,902 Points

Thanks Jeffrey,

That seems to do the trick! Thanks for your help. It's much appreciated! :)

Jeffrey Kam
Jeffrey Kam
1,734 Points
Jeffrey Kam
Jeffrey Kam
1,734 Points

No problem! I'm glad it worked!