Do you have to include link rel icon href favicon ico type image x-icon

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I didn t include the following line of code in my head tag  however my favicon still appears in my browser    lt link rel  icon  href  favicon ico  type  image x-icon    gt    What s the purpose of including it

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I use it for two reasons    I can force a refresh of the icon by adding a query parameter for example  v 2  like this   lt link rel  icon  href   favicon ico v 2  type  image x-icon    gt  In case I need to specify the path

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Simply adding it to the root folder works after a fashion  but I ve found that if I need to change the favicon  it can take days to update    even a cache refresh doesn t do the trick

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If you don t call the favicon  favicon ico  you can use that tag to specify the actual path  incase you have it in an images  directory   The browser webpage looks for favicon ico in the root directory by default

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You should in fact do both  so that all browsers will find the icon   Naming the file  favicon ico  and putting it in the root of your website is the method  discouraged  by W3C      Method 2  Discouraged   Putting the favicon at a predefined URI   A second method for specifying a favicon relies on using a predefined URI to identify the image    favicon   which is relative to the server root  This method works because some browsers have been programmed to look for favicons using that URI    W3C - How to add a favicon to your site   So  to cover all situations  I always do that in addition to the recommended method of adding a  rel  attribute and pointing it to the same  ico file

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Many people set their cookie path to    That will cause every favicon request to send a copy of the sites cookies  at least in chrome  Addressing your favicon to your cookieless domain should correct this    lt link rel  icon  href  https   cookieless MySite com favicon ico  type  image x-icon    gt    Depending on how much traffic you get  this may be the most practical reason for adding the link    Info on setting up a cookieless domain   http   www ravelrumba com blog static-cookieless-domain

[html] Do you have to include <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />?

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