favicon not showing in IE

mart2001

Hi,

I have some link in the header includes that has the following:


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

FF, Chrome, Opera seems to work fine and show the favicon when the html page is generated. IE does not show the favicon image, just the generic IE icon.

Searching through the web, it says that you need the fully qualified domain.
So tried changing the line to:


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

Still same issue. Works in all browsers but IE.
When I go to http://www.****.com/global/images/common/favicon.ico, I do see the icon.

Also tried to put the favicon.ico file at the same level as the workarea, but that is still the same issue.

Anybody else ran into this issue?

Thanks,

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Bhargav Coca

What version of IE? Did you try different versions, or may be you are viewing it from a compatibility view. Check the browser, and sometimes they say that you better clean up your cash, close all windows and then check it in a fresh new window.

See if this helps.

HTH

mart2001

I am using IE 8, I tried all the different compatibility view, still no favicon. Tried clear cache, close and restart browser. Still the favicon is not showing up for IE, but shows for FF, Chrome, and Opera.

Bhargav Coca

Try this instead of your link

[html]

[/html]

HTH

Adam Stoller

Try saving the image as something other than *.ico (e.g.: *.jpg or *.png) and then see if using a reference to that image file type works.

mart2001

In order for me to get the favicon.ico to show up, I had to click on the file under firefox and it showed it as a bmp file. Used some utility found on the web to convert file format from bmp to ico file. Then moved the file up a directory, instead of /global/images/common/favicon.ico, I moved it to /global/images/favicon.ico.

Now the favicon.ico file shows up for IE plus the other browsers.

Thanks for all your input.

Bharatnegi

Many WordPress websites favicon and schema are not showing on the Serp before 1 month i also facing this kind of problem on my website acme infolabs com in this case i would suggest you check the code and index URL again.