Could someone help me figure out why my favicon.ico doesn't show up in Internet Explorer but does show up in Firefox? I've used the following code on each website: <LINK rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/favicon.ico"> in the <head> section and saved a 16x16 jpeg image to my root directory called favicon.ico
It can't be a jpeg. It needs to be a .ico file. First you need to turn the image into a PNG, then use this tool to convert it to an ico file.
Try to erase the bookmark to the site in your favorites...then add it back. This seems to get IE to "find" the file....at least temporarily
IE shows only favicons of those pages that are bookmarked. You don't even need any special links for this - just bookmark the page and restart IE (it requires a restart). J.D.
You may want to read this article on favicon.ico. The article suggests how to help browsers locate the file. http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/favicon.shtml
Just bear in mind that both browsers will 'loose' the icon now and then. If you revisit the page, it will show again.
Actually, it doesn't have to be a ico and it doesn't have to be called favicon.ico. It can be theicon.gif, or myico.bmp.
For compatibility with older browsers it does need to be a icon file. It doesnt have to be called favicon but if it is named something else you will need a link to it and you will still get 404 errors in your server logs as some spiders etc still automatically look for the favicon.ico file