How to prevent favicon.ico requests?

Question

I don\'t have a favicon.ico, but my browser always makes a request for it.

Is it possible to prevent the browser from making a request for the favicon from my site? M

Answer 1

Just add the following line to the section of your HTML file:

Features of this solution:

• 100% valid HTML5
• very short
• does not incur any quirks from IE 8 and older
• does not make the browser interpret the current HTML code as favicon (which would be the case with href="#")