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Having the exact same issue with my HTML5 projects

A tooltip solution like in MS HTML Help (CHM) TOC pane would be great:
Hovering the mouse over the TOC entry displays the TOC entry text in a tooltip.

@Wil : I am affraid I have bad news...
All the information I could find on Internet seems to confirm that IE does not display custom favicons for local web-pages.
Apparently the issue would be due to IE not caching local web-pages and their resources.
A possible solution could be embedding the icon ...

@Wil : I am affraid I have bad news...
All the information I could find on Internet seems to confirm that IE does not display custom favicons for local web-pages.
Apparently the issue would be due to IE not caching local web-pages and their resources.
A possible solution could be embedding the icon ...

Well at my place IE11 is not working with favicon.
I tried it in the 32-bit as well as the 64-bit version.

Sorry to hear that Wil :(
I am guessing you are viewing your HTML5 output locally and not via a web-server. Is that right ?

Indeed, I also get the default IE icon instead of my custom ...

Thank you Nicolas,

I did exactly what you wrote.
It works with Chrome and Firefox. That is great already.
But it does not work with IE11 :cry: .

Wil

Hello Wil,

I don't know if you eventually managed to get it working in IE11, but I just wanted to let you know that I am now using IE11 and my ...

Hi Allison,

I can see a problem in the way you specify the 'cursor' property value in your main stylesheet:
the path to your favicon should be a relative path, as it is referenced from within your stylesheet.

From your error message:
Missing linked source file: \\psf\Home\Documents\My Projects ...

@Wil : I am stuck with IE 9 on my computer for the moment. I will test again when I upgrade. Sorry I cannot help more :(

@Kellie : Interesting challenge you put here with question 1 ! And I found the answer inside your question :wink:
Indeed when the " Exclude content not linked directly or ...

Adding the favicon file to the Content folder of your Flare project will indeed push the icon file to your published output but it will not display by default on your browser without a reference to its actual location via a link in your page head section.
The default browser behavior (i.e. no need ...