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    favicon for IE???

    Posted 16 years 3 months ago
    • Hello,

      How is everyone. I seem to be having a problem with having a favicon appear in Internet Explorer. I am able to have the favicon appear in FF but can't figure out how to make it appear in IE? Can anybody help me out there?

      KO
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  • Re: favicon for IE???

    Posted 16 years 3 months ago
    • hi,

      you can check it out here:
      www.rw-designer.com/favicon
      Internet Explorer

      Internet Explorer supports favicons since version 5.0. It is actually quite hard to make IE show the favicon. If the icon is not showing, try one of the following:

      * Add the page to your favorites. If you already have the page in your favorites folder, remove it and add it again.
      * Make sure, the icon file is called favicon.ico and it is placed in the root folder of your web server.
      * Make sure, the path to the favicon in the header of your page is absolute, not relative.
      * Delete your temporary internet files. If the folder with temporary files has reached its maximum, the favicon may not be used.
      * If your favicon is still not showing, leave us a comment below.
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    Re: favicon for IE???

    Posted 16 years 3 months ago
    • Hey Arifin,

      Thanks. Hope to be able to get to that level where I can start helping people out like so many on this forum.
      Kind of funny however. I do have a converted .ico file and have put this code
      <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"> in the <head></head> area in my template file and still no go. The .ico file is in the root directory. I guess adding <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"> to the template html will not work. Is that correct?

      KO
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    Re: favicon for IE???

    Posted 16 years 3 months ago
    • Place the favicon.ico in the Joomla root directory and add these lines to rt_head_includes.php (or index.php if you use an old template):

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

      If you have favicons located elsewhere, delete them and remove any code references to them.

      Still doesn't show up? Clear cache and delete all temporary files and do a refresh in your browser.

      If this doesn't work in IE then please check that the favicon is a valid Windows icon.
    • Please reply with a direct link to the issue & create a new thread for each new issue.

      A template is only as good as the content that goes into it ;) - DanG
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    Re: favicon for IE???

    Posted 16 years 3 months ago
    • prim, thanks!

      it seems that the ico generator that I was using only works for FF. After regenerating the png file to ico using a different generator and placing the ico file into the root directory, it worked like a charm.

      Thank you for taking notice of this post. I really appreciate it.

      Now I have to figure out how to fix the title in the upper left in the browser... its killing me.
      www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?f=15&t=51945&rb_v=viewtopic
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