How to display .ico image file in IE

Question

I have uploaded .ico file for favicon and its working fine as favicon in all browsers. But when i try to show this .ico file in HTML image tag in IE, it is not displayed correctly. Please help.

Answer 1

IE doesn't serve favicons which doesn't have the type="image/x-icon" on it.

So for favicons for IE, you should use this:
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico" />

For showing the icon as a img tag, the best solution I can think of is trying another format. If you are uploading the icons manually, then I would convert them with an image program.

If you a system which allows users to upload icons, then I would use the GD or ImageMagick library to convert those.