html5 link ico,html - Necessary to add link tag for favicon.ico? - Stack Overflow

Update Oct 2020:

So if you are on this page scratching your head🤔 why my favicon is not working , then read along. I tried all the things (which I supposedly thought I was doing right) yet favicon was not showing up on browser tabs.

Here is one line simple cracker code that worked flawlessly:

Notes:

Put the image in the ROOT folder ( In one of my unsuccessful attempts , I was not using root dir)

Use direct favicon url link ( instead of href="images/bla123.jpg").

I placed this tag just below the

tag in the

I made the favicon size 64x64 px and size was 2.16 KB

I tested it on Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and opera.

OS: Win 10, Mac OSX, ios and Android .Also I did not experience any cashing issues, worked pretty much as soon as I refreshed the page.