favicons

Hi

client likes the idea of favicons, I've added the code

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

Works ok in Firefox but not in ie7, yet other sites favicons show up

Site link is http://www.junction24ltd.co.uk

Can anyone suggest why?

thanks

Ian

It works for me in IE7

On 28 Sep 2008 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Ian Edwards wrote:

client likes the idea of favicons,

Yep. From a branding point of view, they're a great idea.

I've added the code

link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/favicon.ico"/

Works ok in Firefox but not in ie7, yet other sites favicons show up

Site link is http://www.junction24ltd.co.uk

Can anyone suggest why?

Try adding the filetype to the link:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" />
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" />

Note also the two links - apparently some browsers relate better to
just 'icon' as the rel value. Having both won't hurt any.

And if your sample above is a copy/paste, you're missing a space
between the end of the href attribute and the closing /. That
shouldn't make a difference, but in some browsers, it does.

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