Empty both. It will only help your PC.

Google favicon shows up on my IE7.

I hear ya man!!

Let me ask you this... If it can be seen fine using Firefox, can I rule out that the problem is with the icon or where favicon.ico is placed on the server?


Byron

Also.... check this out...

If you fo to http://www.suzyandbyron.com/favicon.ico using Firefox, you'll get a blank page with the favicon at the top left corner. This is good!

but...

If you go to http://www.suzyandbyron.com/favicon.ico using IE6 or IE7, the icon does not appear. Instead, you get a box in the top left with an X where the picture of the icon should be.

What does this tell us? Any idaea?

Byron

Put the favicon in the same folder as your html and replace this

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.suzyandbyron.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="/favicon.ico">

with this

<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico">

and see if that helps. That's the only code I use and works in the 4 browsers I test with.

Tom,

I used that originally, except I put a / before favicon.ico.

This is what I had...

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

So, if I go back to that again, should I not use the slash this time? Do you think that will make the difference?


Thanks
Byron

If the html and the favicon are in the same directory, you don't need the /.

Depending on your hosting company, the root folder for web pages could be:

/
/www/
/YourDomainName/

Tom... Bill... Anyone!!

I tried Tom's suggestion on my homepage only.... without the slach in front of favicon.ico. Still no good

This is what I have on the homppage...

<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico"> --Tom's suggestion

And this is what I have on all the other pages...

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.suzyandbyron.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="/favicon.ico"> --Bill's suggestion

Neither of them work with IE6 or IE7.... errrrr!!!

BUT... both entries work with Firefox.

HELP!!!

Thanks!
Byron

would placing it in an iframe make any difference? just curious!

I just couldn't stay away. LOL.

I found something interesting.

When I use Firefox go to http://www.suzyandbyron.com/favicon.ico and right click to save image as, I get favicon.ico.jpg.

It should be favicon.ico.

Check on that because the code I supplied works in IE7 and your tag is in the proper place within the head section.

Did you use a program capable creating an ico file or did you just rename a jpg file? I believe the problem lies with the favicon itself.

Hi Tom,

I used an ico creating program. It's definately favicon.ico, without the jpg at the end. I'm thinking that when you right click the image, the default file type to save as is jpg.

Thanks for your input man!!

Any other ideas out there???

Thank you
Byron