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Vedank Kulshrestha
Vedank Kulshrestha

Reputation: 220

Favicon Icon NOT shown on IE 9

Favicon icon is showing at chrome, mozilla firefox and i tried other browsers too but it is not showing in IE 9. I am unable to locate where the problem is.

I pasted the code below inside head tag inside MasterPage(using Visual Studio)

<head runat="server">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
    <title>DemoPage</title>
    <link href="css/patrika.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="head" runat="server">
    </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</head>

But favicon is still not shown in IE 9. Is there any other way to do it.. or i am doing something wrong because it works very well on other browsers - chrome,firefox..

Upvotes: 0

Views: 957

Answers (5)

Vedank Kulshrestha
Vedank Kulshrestha

Reputation: 220

Well guys! Thanks for your answer and support!!

I got the solution now We have to add like this inside head tag

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="~/favi.ico" type="text/x-html-insertion" />

Favicon is now working in IE 9 too. Hope this will going to helpful at your end in future as well.

Upvotes: 1

Teejay
Teejay

Reputation: 7471

Use full path for icon

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

Upvotes: 0

chridam
chridam

Reputation: 103335

For the most consistent results, use an absolute path to the favicon.ico file in your domain root folder:

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

Other cases you have to check as well are: 1. Are you renaming a jpg to ico? If so, create the file as an ico and it will wok as expected. 2. If the site is a closed one and requires log in, the icon will not be displayed. Add an exception for the favicon.ico in the web.config:

<location path="favicon.ico">
  <system.web>
     <authorization>
       <allow users="*" />
     </authorization>
  </system.web>
</location>

Upvotes: 3

Anthon
Anthon

Reputation: 76578

Look at the acces log file of your webbrowser. You can actually see where the various browsers do look for a favicon.ico file, then put it there were IE9 is looking for it.

Some browsers were notoriously hard to trigger re-reading the favicon.ico file if they had not done so on first try. So make sure you see that it is trying to retrieve, including restarting the browser and if necessary clearing its cache.

Upvotes: 1

gsmida
gsmida

Reputation: 357

Just refresh the page or delete the cache and refresh it there is no difference between browsers for favicon.

Upvotes: -1

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