There are actually two ways to add a favicon to a website. <link rel=”icon”> Simply add the following code to the <head> element: <link rel=”icon” href=”http://example.com/favicon.png”> PNG favicons are supported by most browsers, except IE <= 10. For backwards compatibility, you can use ICO favicons. Note that you don’t have to precede icon in rel … Read more
I will first say that having a favicon in a Web page is a good thing (normally). However it is not always desired and sometime developers need a way to avoid the extra payload. For example an IFRAME would request a favicon without showing it. Worst yet, in Chrome and Android an IFRAME will generate … Read more
Why not? var link = document.querySelector(“link[rel~=’icon’]”); if (!link) { link = document.createElement(‘link’); link.rel=”icon”; document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)[0].appendChild(link); } link.href=”https://stackoverflow.com/favicon.ico”;
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