The link element’s “media” attribute will be honored for link[rel="icon"] so that web developers can define multiple equally appropriate icons based on a media query (dark and light modes for instance). The last one that matches will be picked. Browsers don’t currently honor the media attribute for link[rel="icon"] even though the HTML specification says they should.
Motivation
This is a known and acknowledged bug in Chrome.
Demo
Specification
Final published standard: Recommendation, Living Standard, Candidate Recommendation, or similar final form
Status in Chromium
Enabled by default
(tracking bug)
Consensus & Standardization
After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.
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Intent to Prototype threadLast updated on 2021-12-15