Question

I am doing client side testing for my web application using IE only, there is no server – so I can test my CSS/XHTML/Javascript.

When I add the line

<link rel="icon" href="favicon1.ico"/>

or

<link rel="icon"href="favicon1.ico"type="image/x-icon"/>

or

<link rel="shortcut icon"href="favicon1.ico"type="image/x-icon"/>

or

<link rel="shortcut icon"href="file://favicon1.ico"type="image/x-icon"/>

I do not see my .ico image displayed in the tab.

My favicon1.ico is a 32px by 32px (32 bpp, 8-bit alpha, no pallete) .ico file created/saved in GIMP residing in the same directory as my html files.

Pretty convinced IE needs a server at this point. I’m trying somewhat random things and using trial and error. Is there a good documentation point for this?

This is temp fix per selected answer.

<link rel="shortcut icon"href="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAoCAYAAAD+MdrbAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAAZiS0dEAP8A/wD/oL2nkwAAAAlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAAAAAd0SU1FB9sHBRUfKj3fzL0AAAAdaVRYdENvbW1lbnQAAAAAAENyZWF0ZWQgd2l0aCBHSU1QZC5lBwAAAFVJREFUSMftzEEKACAIRFHrZHX/Q9kmKKJS013zYXbDS0TMFFim4AACBAgQIECAAH8Ea58mZmFl+hb5r8a0qAnToGZMQp+wG/qMnVAXtkPd2IqGYANt44KonPpHX24AAAAASUVORK5CYII="/>

Answer 1

Try using a data URI; convert an image using an online service like this one and use that for the href value.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="data:image/gif;base64,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" />