I'm getting favicon.ico error

Question

I downloaded the Netbeans IDE to code in HTML. I\'m new to it. When I run my code, chrome is opening and everything is working just fine. I\'m getting some sort of error in

Answer 1

I had a weird situation. Mine was working fine and all of sudden stopped with that error message. I already had the header declaration. So I was dumb founded as to why it wasn't working.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.png">

Literally nothing else on the site had an issue that I could tell. The only thing that fixed it for me was to restart my Apache service and all was good again.

if nothing else is working, give that a shot and see what happens.

Answer 2

This problem occurs when you do not declare at the top of your HTML file in HEDER this tag.

<link rel="icon" href="your_address_icon" type="image/x-icon">

Answer 3

The accepted answer didn't work for me so I've found this solution.

It may be related to the HTML version as the most voted solution there states:

If you need your document to validate against HTML5 use this instead:

<link rel="icon" href="data:;base64,iVBORw0KGgo=">

See the link for more info.

Answer 4

For me the answer didn't work too, but this work fine:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="data:image/x-icon;," type="image/x-icon">

Answer 5

It's a nightmare since each browser/device handles it differently.

Favicon generator helps me a lot for those applications where we need to cover the most possible scenarios.

https://realfavicongenerator.net/

You just need a png image 260px x 260px (at least) and from there the generator will create all references you need within your web page.

You just need to add this references and images to your application.

Answer 6

I have had this error for some time as well. It might be some kind of netbeans bug that has to do with netbeans connector. I can't find any mention of favicon.ico in my code or in the project settings.

I was able to fix it by putting the following line in the head section of my html file

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="">

I am currently using this in my testing environment, but I would remove it for any production environment.